FBI employee pleads guilty to passing information to China
[Guardian] An FBI electronics technician has pleaded guilty in New York to acting as an agent of China and passing along sensitive information to a Chinese government official.
Kun Shan Chun, also known as Joey Chun, faces up to 10 years behind bars when sentenced by a federal judge on 2 December, US prosecutors said.
He was arrested in March, having worked for the FBI for nine years and getting top secret security clearance in 1998.
Chun, 46, confessed to collecting sensitive information and allowing it to be passed on to a Chinese official in exchange for financial reward and concealing that relationship from the FBI.
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Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-02 |