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Feds: LA [Southern California] Woman Conspired To Smuggle US Space Tech To China
cbs2la ^ | 10/20/2017

Posted on 10/20/2017 6:24:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A Pomona woman accused of plotting to smuggle space and military technology to her native China is expected to plead not guilty Friday to federal charges.

Si Chen, also known as Cathy Chen, allegedly bought and exported components commonly used in military communications jammers and for space communications, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The prosecutor said that Chen has family ties to the Chinese government, while her husband was educated at a Chinese military academy and has close connections to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the country’s armed forces.

The indictment alleges that from March 2013 to December 2015, Chen purchased and smuggled sensitive items to China without obtaining licenses from the U.S. Department of Commerce as required by the Economic Powers Act. Jammers can be used to cut off an adversary’s cellular communications and to mislead enemy forces.

If convicted as charged, the Chinese national would face the possibility of more than six years behind bars followed by deportation.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


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1 posted on 10/20/2017 6:24:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Ooohhhhhhh.......

Like the Clintons.


2 posted on 10/20/2017 6:27:02 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BenLurkin

Deja Vu Clinton and his buddies.


3 posted on 10/20/2017 6:27:04 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: BenLurkin

Bullet...forehead...no trial necessary.


4 posted on 10/20/2017 6:28:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Exactly!


5 posted on 10/20/2017 6:30:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: BenLurkin

CA is literally crawling with foreign nationals. I have no doubt a fair percentage of them are spies and or harbor bad intentions towards Americans. And not it’s just China. You name it, it’s here and in many areas they completely outnumbered those, who just a few decades ago, were the clear majority.

And none of this was a mistake.


6 posted on 10/20/2017 6:34:21 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Gay State Conservative

then charge her family for the cost of the bullet.

We have to be culturally sensitive after all. LOL


7 posted on 10/20/2017 6:34:50 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: BenLurkin
It's got so bad with the foreign nationals, every time we saw another 747 on approach, it's like, oh gezzz, another 400...Holy molly! And they land around the clock 24/7, sometimes two at a time.☺
8 posted on 10/20/2017 6:40:03 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: blueunicorn6

Out the back door of the White House while he was STILL in office.


9 posted on 10/20/2017 6:40:51 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: BenLurkin

Chinese guy and his wife with connections with the PLA...in the US with access to secret stuff...what could possibly go wrong?


10 posted on 10/20/2017 6:45:57 PM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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To: dragnet2

It is called man made climate change.


11 posted on 10/20/2017 6:46:40 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: BenLurkin
The prosecutor said that Chen has family ties to the Chinese government, while her husband was educated at a Chinese military academy and has close connections to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army...

And her case officer said "If you get caught just complain of racism comrade."

She was busted for trying to ship something that needed a department of commerce license, not a department of state license which usually covers more sensitive items. Is it possible someone was thinking?

12 posted on 10/20/2017 6:49:22 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

That’s how Bill Clinton sold Loral Space technology to the Chinese (and collected a nice kickback.)


13 posted on 10/20/2017 7:15:05 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: BenLurkin

Note to any US intel folks that may read this:

You need to devote a large group of investigators to full time surveillance of WeChat. No Chinese National stays off of it, they feel anonymous there while in the US, and the entire site is actively part of the PLA.


14 posted on 10/20/2017 7:25:32 PM PDT by datura
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