Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. agreed to pay $1 million to the federal government to settle civil charges related to the illegal export of sensitive military information for the manufacture of certain equipment overseas.
The civil settlement announced Friday was reached by Rocky Mountain Instrument, based in Lafayette, the federal government and a client of Phillips & Cohen LLP.
RMI pleaded guilty to a related criminal charge in June and was sentenced at that time to forfeit $1 million and spend five years on probation. The plea deal said that RMI exported from 2005 to 2007 prisms and technical data related to various optics used in military applications to Turkey, South Korea, China and Russia without having first obtained from the State Department a license or written authorization for such exports.
