Kings Park Businessman Sentenced To Prison For Selling Defective Airplane Parts

A Kings Park businessman was sentenced to 26 months is prison on Friday for selling defective airplane parts that were used to assemble the federal government’s aircraft, including military aircraft, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Paul Skiscim, 63, of East Northport and president of the Kings Park-based Aerospec, Inc., was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, pay restitution of $420,000 and forfeit money and properties, with a value of approximately $1 million, to the government.

"[Skiscim's] scheme not only violated the law but showed a disregard for the safety of military personnel," Acting United States Attorney Bridget M. Rohde said in a statement.

Skiscim served as President of Aerospec, Inc. from 2003 to 2013 until he and the company were debarred for supplying the government with defective airplane parts, the USAO reports. Skiscim continued to bid, contract and supply defective airplane parts to the federal government after his debarment, officials say. He did so by using a series of shell companies that were under the names of relatives and fictitious people to hide his involvement, the USAO reports.

Since 2013, these shell companies received over $2.8 million for the supply of airplane parts, including the parts that were proven defective, according to the USAO.

Skiscim was arrested on Feb. 29, 2016 and pleaded guilty to a charge related to fraud involving airplane parts on Sept. 7, 2016.

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