FBI Employee Joey Chun Sentenced to Years for Acting as an Agent of China

Kun Shan Chun, Joey Chun

Update on Joey Chun case.  (FBI) Former FBI Employee Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 24 Months In Prison For Acting As An Agent Of China Kun Shan Chun, a/k/a “Joey Chun,” Provided Sensitive FBI Information to the Chinese Government  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mary B. McCord, […]

The man who seduced the 7th Fleet

In perhaps the worst national-security breach of its kind to hit the Navy since the end of the Cold War, Leonard Glen Francis doled out sex and money to a shocking number of people in uniform who fed him classified material about U.S. warship and submarine movements. Some also leaked him confidential contracting information and even […]

U.S. Navy officer suspected of passing secrets to Taiwan, China

In this age of globalization, loyalty to which country can be a tricky thing. (Reuters)  A U.S. Navy flight officer with knowledge of sensitive American intelligence collection methods faces espionage charges over suspicions he passed secret information to Taiwan and possibly to China, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the […]

Former FBI counterintelligence special agent sentenced to prison

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Sacred Honor Lost: Special Agent Robert G. Lustyik Jr, a 24-year veteran of the FBI, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $70,000 for soliciting and accepting bribes. Using his position, he tried to derail an investigation into a company started by former soldiers suspected of paying kickbacks to win $54 million in […]

Army Contracting Official Charged in Pentagon Bribery Scheme

Manassas Man is a Retired Army Sergeant Major Working as a Civilian Contracting Official for the Army at the Pentagon (FBI) James Glenn Warner, 44, of Manassas, Virginia, was arrested today and charged with soliciting bribes from executives working for a private company on a contract that Warner managed out of the Pentagon. Dana J. […]

“Sacred Honor Lost” Recent Cases

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Recent cases security officers should know about: Embezzlement/Theft Woman Sentenced for Defrauding Former Employer of More Than $440,000  while working as the bookkeeper and accountant for Telsar Laboratories, Inc. (TLI), she fraudulently caused electronic deposits to be made to her own accounts and also caused fraudulent payments to be made to her by check out […]

Need to Know Recent Cases – 2 July

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BRIBERY/KICKBACKS Prison Sentences and More Than $500,000 in Fines For Contractors Who Bribed the ‘Godfather’ of Camp Pendleton  The presidents of two government contracting companies, as well as the companies themselves, were sentenced today for bribing the so-called “Godfather” of Camp Pendleton in exchange for millions of dollars in construction and service contracts at Camp […]

Public Corruption Update

(FBI) The vast majority of public servants who work at the local, state, and federal levels of government are honest and dedicated folks who strive every day to do the right thing for their constituents, their communities, and their country. Unfortunately, there is a small subgroup of public servants who, whether elected, appointed, or contracted, […]

Recent Cases Security Officers Should Know About

Security officers have to be concerned with more than just someone spying. Outright espionage doesn’t happen every day, but cases of employee theft, embezzlement, cheating, stealing, taking bribes and kickbacks, scamming, export violations and more are taking place at work everyday.  Don’t believe it? Sign up for email updates from the FBI. Are these types of […]

Robert Patrick Hoffman sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempted espionage

Robert Patrick Hoffman II

DOJ Press Release (10 Feb 14): Former Sailor Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Attempted Espionage Robert Patrick Hoffman II, 40, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced today to serve 30 years in prison for attempting to commit espionage against the United States. John P. Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s […]

Government People Behaving Badly

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The Department of Defense has issued their “Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure,” in other words, epic Loss of Sacred Honor. It’s not just about DOD employees but covers cases from many different agencies — employees and contractors. The topics cover: Abuse of Position Bribery (18 U.S.C. § 201-Type Violations) Compensation for Representational Services from Non-Federal Sources […]

Former State Department worker, husband sentenced for contracting fraud

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Waste, Fraud & Abuse as well as Sacred Honor Lost alert: (Washington Post) A Stafford, Va., woman who prosecutors say concealed her marriage and used her job at the State Department to funnel tens of millions of dollars in government contracting work to a company she and her husband ran was sentenced to two years in […]

Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste

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OUTRAGEOUS, MIND BOGGLING and disgusting. Be sure to read the entire article: Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste (Reuters) . . . . At the DFAS offices that handle accounting for the Army, Navy, Air Force and other defense agencies, fudging the accounts with false entries is standard operating procedure, Reuters has found. And […]

Moles in US Navy helped defense contractor bilk government

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Takeaway point: “Affidavits filed by investigators demonstrate how easy it was for a foreign contractor to allegedly pry loose secrets from the Navy with age-old temptations: sex and money.” (Washington Post) For the past four years, Navy officials strongly suspected they were being ripped off by a major defense contractor that resupplied ships and submarines […]

Senior officer, NCIS agent are among those arrested in Navy bribery scandal

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(Washington Post)  The U.S. Navy is being rocked by a bribery scandal that federal investigators say has reached high into the officer corps and exposed a massive overbilling scheme run by an Asian defense contractor that provided prostitutes and other kickbacks. Among those arrested on corruption charges are a senior agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service […]

Ex-Govt official sentenced in contracting scheme of ‘historic proportions’

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Sacred Honor Lost: (Washington Post) He was a career federal bureaucrat with a dark side, inflating government contracts by millions of dollars and then shaking down contractors for the proceeds. The money funded a lavish and sordid lifestyle — a real estate empire in Northern Virginia, leased BMWs, Neiman Marcus shopping sprees, and mistresses in three […]