Metal Gear Solid Technical Advisor Jailed for Shady Weapons Deal
Metal Gear Solid Technical Advisor Jailed for Shady Weapons Deal
November 8, 2008
An Army captain who once served as a technical advisor to PlayStation smash Metal Gear Solid has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally exporting sophisticated weapon parts.
The Associated Press reports that Tomoaki Iishiba, 34, a Japanese man who served with the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan and is currently assigned to a military intelligence unit, was sentenced by U.S. District Court judge Marsha Pechman. Although prosecutors recommended probation, Pechman imposed the stiff sentence, saying:
[Iishiba is] a soldier who had abused his trust, using his military address to order parts and then shipping them to foreign nationals. ... The problem with putting something in the stream of commerce is you don't know where it will end up.
Iishiba, who has also written a book and endorsed a line of survival knives, was busted for sending 60 holographic night vision sights to an associate in Japan without an export license. Why, Tomoaki, why?
In court, Iishiba said he sent only accessories, not the firing parts of guns, to Japanese military and law enforcement friends "because they love freedom as much as we do." He added that most of the parts were for use in games similar to paintball...
Government lawyers wrote in court filings that Iishiba did not "intend to threaten a security or foreign policy interest of the United States."
GamePolitics previously reported on Iishiba's indictment in July.
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
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That's funny. I never heard of using the holographic EOTech sight for paintball. At least not the one that's NVG compatible.
Exactly... because its military hardware... but wouldn't it be cool to use that stuff for paintball? I'm sure thats what his "Associates" were thinking.
Tomoaki Iishiba: I sent the weapon sights to people that support and love freedom!
Judge: What did they do with those sights?
Tomoaki Iishiba: Played some kick ass games of paint ball. It was rad.
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Sounds like they're talking about airsofting there, noteworthy because far more realistic guns are used in the sport (I assume its played as a sport) than you tend to get from paintballing. In fact I could believe that night vision goggles might get used in a special airsofting skirmish. (This from someone whose only done one paintball game and not done any airsofting so please excuse me for factual errors that may have occured)
In America, a set of night vision goggles or a night vision scope (which could be mounted behind the EOTech sight for, kind of like that guy did in 28 weeks later) can run you 500 to 3000 dollars. The EOTech sight is more than five hundred dollars as well. So, if you're airsofting or paintballing with those two things, you're paying the cost of your 'gun' or more for optics that work only slightly better than the iron sights the weapon comes with.
Tomoaki? Tomoaki?! TOMOAKI!!!
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Don't forget to include a pack of smokes in each order Tomoaki.... You never know when these things may come in handy!!
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Could he actually be exporting things so that Japan can create a Metal Gear that can detect targets (hence the googles) and launch a massive missile filled with paintballs? O_O
You're thinking too small. He is really going to build Arsenal Gear that can detect targets and launch Metal Gear RAY's and deploy it into Manhattan in 2009.
Did I mention their primary weapons are paintball guns? I didn't think so.
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What a crock of shit. I'll send whatever NVG stuff people in Japan want to them. Fuck that crap! One year in jail for helping out law enforcment buddies.
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These are the Japanese we are talking about here, this technology is probably equivalent to what they used when Nintendo developed the Virtual Boy way back when. How is that a threat to national security?
Actually, the sights in question (EOTech 553 or 551 if I recall) are both made to work in conjunction with Night Vision. They are also some of the most cutting edge sights in the world.
Bullshit, he should get a reprimand not a prison sentence, he didn't send the parts to Al-Qaeda
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Does anyone else think that the Judge in this case is just a little bit of a wanker? I would have given him probation, to be honest.
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"He added that most of the parts were for use in games similar to paintball..."
I'm sure it was for airsoft scenario games, they would totally own during night time scenarios :) I have a few airsoft guns myself but they aren't high quality, the p90 made by firepower sucks tho, always seizing up and it is NOT easy to take apart and fix, stay away from it :/ I prefer paintball myself tho, sucks man shoulda just slapped him on the hand he didnt supply iran or anything jeez
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I think its bullshit: You don't use EOtech sights for airsoft or paintball. They're more expansive than most Airsoft and paintball guns!
You've never been painballing in the middle of nowhere, have you?
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