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Counterfeit Airbag Supplier Sentenced To Prison

June 17, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Ohio man ordered to pay over $75,000 and serve one year in prison.

U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that David Nichols, 69, of Marysville, Ohio, who was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit air bags, was sentenced to serve one year in prison and ordered to pay $75,846 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo who handled the case, stated that from August 2015 through March 2016, Nichols and co-defendant Raymond Whelan imported and sold counterfeit automobile air bags from China. Since Nichols lived in China at the time, he

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