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May 27, 2010 - A
Miami Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) repair station owner was
sentenced May 24 to prison for committing fraud, following an
investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S.
Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General, Defense
Criminal Investigative Service, Air Force Office of Special
Investigations (AFOSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and
the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).
Willie McCain, 52,
was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley to one year
and one day in prison followed by two years of supervised release on
four counts of fraud involving aircraft parts. Additionally, Judge
Hurley ordered McCain to pay $21,750 in restitution to the U.S. Air
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McCain, owner of
McCain Research Labs, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida based FAA certificated
repair station, completed more than 100 FAA Form 8130's (Airworthiness
Approval Tags), certifying that he was authorized to inspect and test
certain aircraft parts that had been provided to him for inspection by
John Falco of Falcon Aviation. However, McCain was not authorized to
inspect and test these aircraft parts because they were not within his
FAA rating or on his FAA-approved capabilities list.
The investigation
was conducted by ICE's Office of Investigations in |
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