Donald H. Cone, 48, of Frederick, Md., was sentenced in Alexandria, Va., to 30 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import and sell counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, according to a press release from the U.S. Justice Department.
U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee also ordered Cone to pay $143,300 in restitution and to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, according to the press release issued by U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
Lee handed down the sentence Thursday.
A federal jury convicted Cone and a co-conspirator, Chun-Yu Zhao of Chantilly, Va., in May 2011 after a three-week trial.– Zhao will be sentenced Sept. 9, 2011.–
According to the evidence introduced at trial, Zhao, Cone and Zhao’s family members in China operated a large-scale counterfeit computer networking equipment business under the names of JDC Networking Inc. and Han Tong Technology (Hong Kong) Limited.
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