Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Cyber information is not the only thing the Chinese are stealing from the United States. A new generation of synthetic designer drugs is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s investigation into News Corporation last year included an inquiry into claims that the Wall Street Journal’s China bureau bribed local officials for information, the New York Times reports. It’s unclear what – if anything – the FBI found during the investigation, which originally began over a phone-hacking scandal in 2011. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former General Motors engineer and her husband, both accused of trying to steal secrets from the domestic automaker and pass them on to a Chinese competitor, threw out bags of shredded documents at a suburb in Detroit, FBI agents said Tuesday, Reuters reports. Trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit began…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com What first looks like a routine drug bust seems to have evolved into international arms smuggling charges. The FBI is alleging that Taiwanese nationals Hui Sheng-shen, 45, and Huan Ling-chang, 41, known as “Charlie” and “Alice”, were trying to acquire military spy drones, E-2C Hawkeye surveillance airplanes and stealth technology relating to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bernie La Forest, who headed up ATF offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles before retiring, has just penned his second suspense novel — “In The Red Dragon’s Shadow.” The murder mystery is chock full of international intrigue and involves the ATF, Detroit Police, guns, radical Muslims from Iraq,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former engineer who worked on the B-2 Stealth bomb was convicted in Honolulu Monday of selling military secrets to China to help that nation develop a stealth cruise missile, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said the engineer, Noshir Gowadia,66, pocketed at least $110,000 from the transactions and used the money…
By Brian Schott ticklethewire.com China has a well-known taste for trading in strange and exotic animal parts. Bear bile. Rhinoceros horn. But endangered sea turtle guitar picks? Qing Song, a Santa Rosa, Calif., woman, pleaded guilty Wednesday in San Francisco federal court to violating the Lacey Act by importing from China guitar picks and turtle…
Scientist Quan-Sheng Shu figured he’d be on easy street the remainder of his life. Now he’s off to prison. Not exactly a retirement dream come true. By Tim McGlone The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK, Va. — A local scientist was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in federal prison after admitting he passed space technology to China and…
