Six former employees of WECO Aerospace, a Lincoln, Calif, maintenance and repair facility near Sacramento, are facing charges relating to work done on aircraft prior to 2007. California residents Jerry Edward Kuwata, 60, of Granite Bay; Michael Dennis Maupin, 58, of Arbuckle; Scott Hamilton Durham, 39, of Roseville; Christopher Warren MacQueen, 53, of Lincoln; Douglas Arthur Johnson, 52, of Granite Bay; and Anthony Vincent Zito, 47, of Saugus have been indicted by a Sacramento federal grand jury on 36 charges of using unapproved parts in aircraft repairs. In at least one case, a paper clip was used, the indictments allege. The repairs apparently did the trick, at least temporarily, because there were no incidents reported that were directly related to the work, but the long list of alleged corner-cutting and fraud has raised the dander of prosecutors. There have been no reported problems since Gulfstream took over.
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