Dawn Hanna, sales manager of Technology Integration Group Services Inc., was convicted in Detroit's U.S. District Court last year of violating federal export laws, conspiring to launder money and making false statements to a customs agent.
A jury acquitted her brother, Darrin Hanna, 31, the firm's owner and president, of similar charges.
The most serious count, conspiring to launder money, carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
U.S. District Judge Marianne Battani will impose today's sentence.
Prosecutors said Hanna conspired to obtain and ship components for a mobile telecommunications network and global positioning equipment to Iraq from 2001-03 with the help of a Jordanian middleman. Prosecutors said they violated an embargo that was declared after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
The U.S. lifted the economic sanctions against Iraq in 2003 and 2004. Prosecutors said the Hannas were paid $9.5 million for a series of illegal exports but that additional shipments were intercepted by customs officials.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Barbara McQuade and Michael Martin.
Contact BEN SCHMITT at 313-223-4296 or bcschmitt@freepress.com.
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