{"id":13288,"date":"2011-09-22T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13288"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:46:38","slug":"man-jailed-for-trying-to-sell-jet-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/man-jailed-for-trying-to-sell-jet-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Jailed for Trying to Sell Jet to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Knapp was sentenced to 46 months in prison for trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/man-who-tried-to-export-jet-to-iran-gets-46-months.html?\">sell an F-5 and various F-14 parts to Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors said Knapp&#8230;was motivated by both greed and a hatred of the United States. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall said Knapp told an undercover agent that he was starting to hate America and wanted to &#8220;level the playing field&#8221; with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorney Christopher Koyste said the statements Knapp made were &#8220;puffery.&#8221;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was playing a role of what he expected,&#8221; Koyste said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently Knapp had obtained some of the items on the internet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other items Knapp tried to either sell or ship overseas in violation of U.S. law included an F-14 ejection seat, five flight suits that mitigate G-forces, four survival radios and an F-14 emergency operations manual&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that a G-suit is obtained from eBay does not mean it is not criminal activity to sell it to Iran,&#8221; Hall said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess what they say about not believing everything you read on the internet &#8212; or selling stuff from the internet to Iran &#8212; remains true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Knapp was sentenced to 46 months in prison for trying to sell an F-5 and various F-14 parts to Iran. Prosecutors said Knapp&#8230;was motivated by both greed and a hatred of the United States. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall said Knapp told an undercover agent that he was starting to hate America and wanted to &#8220;level the playing field&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2226,2227,224,307,2229,5285,2228,1178,2225,2],"class_list":["post-13288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-christopher-koyste","tag-david-hall","tag-ejection","tag-f-14","tag-f-5","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-g-suit","tag-iran","tag-marc-knapp","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}