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Published 22 April 2021 A federal grand jury in Carbondale, Ill. On Wednesday returned an indictment charging a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale (SIUC) with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. The prosecution is part of the Justice Department’s ongoing China Initiative. Led by the Department’s National Security Division, the China Initiative is a broad, multi-faceted effort to counter Chinese national securit...

Peraton Names Former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center William Evanina to its Advisory Board An Expert in Counterintelligence and Security Within the U.S. Intelligence Community, U.S. Government, and the Private Sector News provided by Share this article Share this article HERNDON, Va., April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peraton has named former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), William (Bill) Evanina to its  PERATON NAMES FORM...

North Korean Extradited to US to Face Money Laundering Charges Mun Chol Myong is the first North Korean to ever face criminal charges in the US. For the first time ever, a North Korean national has been extradited to the United States to face criminal charges, an achievement that authorities said took two years of legal wrangling and the help of the FBI and an unnamed foreign country. Mun Chol Myong, 55, faces six counts of money laundering, including conspiracy to commit money laundering, as p...

Avnet Asia Admits to Criminal Liability for the Conduct of Former Employees, and Agrees to Pay More Than $3.2 Million An indictment was unsealed this week charging Cheng Bo, also known as Joe Cheng, a 45-year-old national of the People’s Republic of China, with participating in a criminal conspiracy from 2012-2015 to violate U.S. export laws by shipping U.S. power amplifiers to China. Cheng’s former employer, Avnet Asia Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company and global distributo...

Exclusive one-on-one with FBI Charlotte’s new Special Agent in Charge Exclusive one-on-one with new FBI Special Agent in Charge By WBTV Web Staff | March 9, 2021 at 10:17 PM EST - Updated March 10 at 2:41 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina’s FBI division is headquartered in Charlotte. Its 180-agents statewide investigate domestic terrorism, missing children, gangs, drugs, white collar crime -- they work on cases to, ultimately, keep you and your family safe. But when you ...

Washington, D.C. March 2, 2021 Statement for the Record Good morning, Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Grassley, and members of the committee. I am honored to be here, representing the men and women of the FBI. Our people—nearly 37,000 of them—are the heart of the Bureau. I am proud of their service and their commitment to our mission. Every day, they tackle their jobs with perseverance, professionalism, and integrity—sometimes at the greatest of costs. Just last month, two of our agents m...

Chinese Businessman Charged With Conspiring To Steal Trade Secrets Details Written by Imperial Valley News Washington, DC - Chi Lung Winsman Ng, aka Winsman Ng, 64, a Chinese businessman residing in Hong Kong, was indicted Thursday for conspiring to steal General Electric’s (GE) trade secrets involving the company’s silicon carbide MOSFET technology worth millions of dollars.  “Winsman Ng and his co-conspirators allegedly chose to steal what they lacked the ti...

Co-conspirators including a GE engineer pitched their startup to Chinese investors, the Department of Justice said.

Stanford University researcher charged for concealing her membership with Chinese military ANI | Updated: Feb 24, 2021 10:49 IST Washington [US], February 24 (ANI): A Stanford University researcher has been charged for concealing and lying about her membership with the Chinese military. A federal grand jury on February 19 charged Chen Song with visa fraud, obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and false statements in connection with a scheme to ...

  Grand Jury Adds Obstruction, Alteration of Records, and False Statements to Visa Fraud Charges Against Visiting Researcher Alleged to Be Member of China’s People’s Liberation Army A federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment charging Chen Song with visa fraud, obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and false statements in connection with a scheme to conceal and lie about her status as a member of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces while in the United ...