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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, Missouri, on Tuesday, May 18. That indictment was unsealed and made public Friday upon Kingsbury’s...

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 upon discovery that she had allegedly taken the documents, according to the DOJ.  Kingsbury had a ...

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 January 2011, Debbins periodically visited Russia and met with Russian intelligence agents. In 1997, D...

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 restitution to the National Institute of Health (NIH) and approximately $413,000 to The Ohio State Un...

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 the focus of lobbying will be mainly in the US. Mercury submitted its agreement with the subsidiary to...