Chinese spy case in Chicago linked to larger foreign espionage scheme
Chinese spy case in Chicago linked to larger foreign espionage scheme WLS Share: CHICAGO (WLS) -- The spy case against a former U.S. Army reservist and student at Illinois Institute of Technology wasn't a one-man espionage show, according to federal investigators. Ji Chaoqun's federal court appearance in Chicago on Thursday is routine, in an anything-but-normal case. Chaoqun is charged against the backdrop of a possibly wider Chinese scheme to siphon intelligence information overseas. Chaoqun and a similarly-accused spyman in Cincinnati, Ohio, shared the same foreign connection according to a...