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>> it’s shocking nobody is going to jail in relation to a fraud guilty plea. > They are though. From the justice.gov article: > "Dennis Balius, the SPI testin
by CharlesColeman 7y ago
>> it’s shocking nobody is going to jail in relation to a fraud guilty plea.
> They are though. From the justice.gov article:
> "Dennis Balius, the SPI testing lab supervisor, led a scheme to alter tests within SPI’s computerized systems and provide false certifications with the altered results to customers...Balius pleaded guilty in July 2017 and was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay over $170,000 in restitution."
Was he the instigator of this scheme, or were his superiors aware?
I'm not seeing the incentive for someone in testing to fake results on their own. I would imagine the motivation would either come from sales (to close a deal to sell product they couldn't actually produce) or manufacturing (to cover up costly quality problems). Balius seems like a fall guy.
- gnode 7y ago> I'm not seeing the incentive for someone in testing to fake results on their own. There's a lot of missing details, so it's hard to know. From the description of what he did, it seems the interest was not so much in generating false results, but cutting corners, such as running the tests quicker than was allowable. This could have been to make up for some shortfall in lab throughput, for instance. Also, it sounds like he was in charge of the lab, so fairly high up. That position may have come with substantial performance related incentives.