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Michael Makalou, Former Diplomat Sentenced to 12 Months for Assault of Wife...
We almost missed this announcement from USDOJ from June 22, 2012 about the sentencing of a former Political Officer for assaulting his wife while posted at the US Embassy in Senegal back in 2011 . See...
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USCG Guangzhou: Former Guard Pleads Guilty for Attempt to Sell Info to...
This one gets an award for astounding stupidity like writing an “I’m ready to spy for you” offer to China’s Ministry of Security, except that he called it an um, “business arrangement.” This dolt then...
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US Embassy Dublin: Roger Kiley Impersonates Customs Attaché, What’s Love...
Via USDOJ: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Pleads Guilty to Impersonating U.S. Customs Attaché WASHINGTON – A supervisory customs and border protection officer pleaded guilty today in the...
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US Embassy Caracas: Former FSN Pleads Guilty for Receiving Illegal Gratuity
In May 2012, we blogged about a US Embassy employee in Caracas, Venezuela who was was arrested in Washington, D.C., on one charge of conspiracy and two charges of bribery in connection with visa...
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US Embassy Caracas: Former FSN Sentenced to Nine-Month Prison Term in Visa...
We have previously posted about the arrest of an FSN from US Embassy Caracas on conspiracy/bribery charges in a visa application scheme (see US Embassy Caracas FSN Arrested on Conspiracy/Bribery...
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USDOJ: FSO Michael Todd Sestak Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud and...
We have blogged previously about this case: “Conservative Estimate” of Proceeds from Alleged Visas for Sale Scheme “At Least $10 Million” Sestak Criminal Complaint Details Alleged Visa For Dollars...
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USDOJ: AmCit Binh Vo, Alleged Co-Conspirator in Michael Sestak Visa Scandal...
– By Domani Spero We have previously blogged about the visa fraud allegations at the Consulate General in Ho Chi Min City involving FSO Michael T. Sestak and four other alleged co-conspirators. Court...
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Couple in State Dept $53 Million Contract Fraud Gets 18-24 Months in Prison
– Domani Spero In May and September 2013 we blogged about this case (See State Dept Contract Employee/Husband Indicted For Alleged Secret Scheme to Steer More Than $60 Million Contracts to Their...
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Embassy Row’s Dirty Little Secret: Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers by...
– Domani Spero The logic behind a restrictive interpretation of functional immunity is that while a diplomat may be protected from some distractions to aid his purpose, there ought to be no need for...
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Balwinder Singh aka ‘Happy’ Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material...
– Domani Spero The day after Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud and false...
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U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Indian Diplomat Devyani Khobragade (See Documents)
– Domani Spero On January 9, a U.S. Grandy Jury indicted Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud (count one) and for false statements (count two). The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern...
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US Embassy New Delhi RSO Wayne May Given 48 Hours to Leave India Over...
– Domani Spero On January 9, a grand jury indicted Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud and for false statements. Around the same time, Washington granted the Indian diplomat...
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State Dept Responds to an FOIA Two Years After Request — Confusion and...
– Domani Spero One of our blog readers asked us about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Nope, we don’t know much about it except the (b)(6) exemptions which resulted on the redactions of OIG...
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Diplomatic Security Locates 21 Year Fugitive Through Facebook
– Domani Spero Via USDOJ: SAN FRANCISCO – Francisco R. Legaspi made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday morning for failing to appear for his sentencing on Jan. 28, 1993, U.S. Attorney...
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Menendez Indictment: Visas for Girlfriends, Consular Affairs, INL, and...
Posted: 5:29 pm PDT Today, a federal grand jury indicted Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on corruption charges. According to the WSJ, Mr. Menendez, 61 years old, has said “he didn’t do anything wrong...
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Twin Brothers and Co-Conspirators on Alleged Scheme to Hack State Dept to...
Posted: 2:16 am EDT Via USDOJ: Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, Virginia, were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to...
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State Dept Issues Letters to U.S.Passport Holders With Potentially...
Posted: 3:21 am EDT On May 7, we blogged about the indictment of a domestic passport agency contractor and two others alleged to have used stolen U.S. passport information in Texas (see U.S....
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Spying Case Against Robin Raphel Fizzles; AG Lynch’s “Houston, We Have a...
Posted: 2:05 am EDT We blogged about the Robin Raphel case in September (see The Murky Robin Raphel Case 10 Months On, Remains Murky … Why?. In November 2014, we also blogged this: Robin Raphel,...
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Former @StateDept Sr. Official Sentenced to 32 Months For Voyeurism and...
Posted: 3:20 am EDT We previously blogged about Daniel Rosen, a former State/CT official who was arrested earlier this year (see State Dept’s Counterterrorism Official Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting...
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Another Coordinator Gone, What’s Next For the Center for Strategic...
Posted: 2:11 am EDT This past August, the State Department told us that the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) remains a stand-alone office reporting to the Under Secretary...
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