Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs

And not just a few, but Elaine Thomas falsified strength testing data for hundreds of production runs going back to the 80’s while working for a foundry that provided steel used in the construction of submarines. The company she worked for only figured it out in 2017; they did the right thing in promptly canning her ass and letting the Navy know, but they apparently tried to pass this off as a series of mistakes, not fraud. Unclear why they would do that, maybe they thought that *they* would be on the hook more for having a dishonest employee rather than merely an incompetent one.