The defendants 'polluted the air we breathe for their own profit and harmed the health of Californians,' U.S. Atty. Phillip Talbert said...
California made it harder to defraud smog tests by developing software that prevented such trickery...
Starting about a decade ago, officials allege, a sophisticated criminal ring developed and marketed a machine that tricked the state's software to 'pass vehicles that would otherwise fail California's smog inspections.'
Hemdan hired programmers and designers to help him develop the device. He allegedly sold an early version to a smog shop operator in Anaheim in December of 2015 for $9,500.
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