US Judge John D Bates sentenced Robert E Quinn on 6 November to 18 months' probation and 70 hours of community service and imposed a special assessment of USD100 for making false statements to federal agents in a trade embargo case on shipment of forklift parts to Iran.

Quinn pleaded guilty on 26 August under a plea agreement with the government (Forkliftaction.com News #375).
(Forkliftaction.com News #375). The judge accepted the prosecutors' move to dismiss a conspiracy count and five counts of violating US economic sanctions that stemmed from trans-shipment of replacement parts through the United Arab Emirates to Iran from Clark Material Handling Co of Lexington, Kentucky, where Quinn was employed as a vice president. Quinn's 2005 jury conviction was overturned in March 2008 because the government withheld an email beneficial to his defense. The government attorneys opted to negotiate a plea agreement rather than seek a new trial.

Aitan Dror Goelman, a Washington attorney representing Quinn, filed testimonial letters with the US District Court in Washington from seven family members, several neighbours and friends including Chicago childhood acquaintances, a former co-worker and recent clients of Lexington-based Quinn and Associates including a regional US distributor of material handling equipment and a California forklift dealer.

The judge ordered the District of Columbia pre-trial services agency to return Quinn's US passport to him.