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FBI Employee Indicted for Illegally Removing National Security Documents, Taking Material to Her Home Details Written by IVN Kansas City, Missouri - An employee of the FBI’s Kansas City Division has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally removing numerous national security documents that were found in her home. Kendra Kingsbury, 48, of Dodge City, Kansas, was charged in a two-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, ...

Former FBI employee indicted for allegedly taking classified documents home By Catherine Park WASHINGTON - An employee of the Federal Investigations Bureau was indicted after allegedly taking several documents that contained classified information home and keeping them for nearly a decade, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.  Kendra Kingsbury, 48, of Dodge City, Kansas, worked as an intelligence analyst for the Kansas City Division of the FBI for 12 years before her suspension in 2017...

Former Army Green Beret Sentenced for Russian Espionage Conspiracy Published: 15 May 2021 15 May 2021 Washington, DC - A Virginia man and former Army Green Beret was sentenced yesterday to 188 months in prison for conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with U.S. national defense information. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 46, of Gainesville, admitted to conspiring with agents of a Russian intelligence service. According to court documents, from December 1996 to Ja...

University Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Lying on Grant Applications to Develop Scientific Expertise for China Details Written by Imperial Valley News Washington, DC - An Ohio man and rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China was sentenced to 37 months in prison for making false statements to federal authorities as part of an immunology research fraud scheme. As part of his sentence, Zheng was also ordered to pay more than $3.4 million in r...

Uganda now hires foreign PR firm to improve its image in US May 9, 2021 President Yoweri Museveni Uganda has hired an international public relations firm, Mercury International UK Limited, a subsidiary of Mercury Public Affairs, to improve its image on the international scene. Documents seen by URN show that when Uganda hired Mercury International UK Limited, it subcontracted its mother firm Mercury Public Affairs to do the job. This signals that th...

Government hires PR firm to ‘clean Uganda’s image’ Saturday May 08 2021 This photo taken on November 18, 2020 shows police arresting one of Mr Robert Kyagulanyis supporters near Nalufenya police post in Jinja where he [Mr Kyagulanyi] was rushed to following his arrest that sparked off a wave of protests across the country. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA Summary The move was made a week after US Secretary of State, Mr Antony John Blinken slapped visa restrictions against unnamed Uganda officials ...

(AGENPARL) – WASHINGTON (D.C.), gio 22 aprile 2021 WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Greeneville, Tennessee, convicted a U.S. citizen today of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, economic espionage and wire fraud. Following a twelve-day trial, Dr. Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You, 59, of Lansing, Michigan, was convicted of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets, economic espionage, and wire fraud. You was originally i...

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Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael K. Atkinson, the former Inspector General of the U.S. Intelligence Community, is joining Crowell & Moring as a partner, expanding the firms white collar, internal investigations, and national security capabilities. Michael K. Atkinson As the former presidentially appointed and Senate confirmed chief watchdog of the nations 17 intelligence agencies, Atkinson led dozens of high-profile investigations, includi...

Brings Two Decades of Justice Department and Intelligence Agency Experience Washington—February 17, 2021: Michael K. Atkinson, the former Inspector General of the U.S. Intelligence Community, is joining Crowell & Moring as a partner, expanding the firm’s white collar, internal investigations, and national security capabilities. As the former presidentially appointed and Senate confirmed chief watchdog of the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies, Atkinson led dozens of high-profile investigat...