Three men are facing federal charges for selling forklifts to the military that were branded as “Made in the USA” but were actually produced in China, federal officials said.

Federal prosecutors indicted three in an alleged conspiracy to create fake invoices for the machines that helped avoid nearly $1 million in import taxes and violated military contracting rules for U.S.-made equipment, according to Department of Justice officials.

Charges were handed down by a federal jury in Denver, Colorado, in late August against Endless Sales Inc., Octane Forklifts, Inc., and three executives, Brian Firkins, Jeffrey Blasdel, and J.R. Antczak, the DOJ announced in a press release earlier this week.

According to Federal spending data, the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Defense Logistics Agency paid th

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