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-Lurid Crime Tales-

FBI employee pleads guilty to passing information to China

2016-08-02

[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.
Related: As U.S. pushes police to diversify, FBI struggles to get minorities in the door.

Posted by:Besoeker

#5 Hasn't all of that now been legalized ? It would seem so--at least if you are a Donk Prez. candidate.

Posted by: JohnQC 2016-08-02 16:29

#4 Little people.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-08-02 08:46

#3 John Schindler:

That the FBI allowed Chun to be arrested may be a positive sign, however, since I personally know of previous examples where suspected Chinese moles inside our Intelligence Community were allowed to resign, never to face charges of any kind. In one notorious case a few years back, a Chinese-American mole was uncovered in an FBI field office, indeed caught red-handed. But the employee was allowed to quit and walk away, scot free, since the FBI had no stomach for a messy spy scandal coupled with the inevitable claims of “racial profiling” that follow the arrest of any Asian-American suspected of spying for Beijing.

That Chun now faces a few years of prison may be an indication that, at last, our government is getting tough about the rising problem of Chinese espionage against the United States, which is a good thing. Let’s see how the Department of Justice handles the next accused Chinese mole, who’s sure to come along sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Pappy 2016-08-02 08:43

#2 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.

Hasn't all of that now been legalized ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-02 07:08

#1 Treason, how severe?
Lose his job, family, clearance, 10 years of jailtime. Is he even a minority? Was he one of the quotas? Was he supported by his family? Should they be deported too? Do we know where he lives so we can become neighborhood pests?

Posted by: Skidmark 2016-08-02 03:46

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