Arizona sheriff buys scanners from China firm sanctioned by feds

A Chinese biometrics company on a U.S. watch list reportedly won a $5 million no-bid contract to provide eight body scanners and related services to a sheriff's office in the state of Arizona.

The company that the Maricopa County's sheriff bought from has a history of questionable business practices, some of which the federal government constitute national security threats and others are anti-competitive. And the sheriff's office says officials knew this when they cut the check.

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