On July 7, 2016, in the Central District of California,\u00a0Gregory Allen Justice was arrested by FBI special agents on federal charges of economic espionage and\u00a0violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) for his attempts to sell sensitive satellite information\u00a0to a person he believed to be a foreign intelligence agent. Justice worked for a cleared defense contractor\u00a0as an engineer on military and commercial satellites during his alleged crimes. According to the affidavit\u00a0in support of the criminal complaint, Justice stole proprietary trade secret materials from his employer and\u00a0provided them to a person whom he believed to be a representative of a foreign intelligence service, but\u00a0who was in fact an FBI undercover agent. In addition to their proprietary nature, the documents contained\u00a0technical data covered by the U.S. Munitions List and therefore controlled for export from the United\u00a0States under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, according to the allegations. In exchange for\u00a0providing these materials, Justice allegedly sought and received cash payments. On May 22, 2017,\u00a0Gregory Allen Justice pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to commit economic espionage and one\u00a0count of attempting to violate the AECA; on Sep. 19, 2017, he was sentenced to 60 months in prison. This\u00a0investigation was conducted by the FBI and AFOSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Satellite Trade Secrets to Undercover AgentOn July 7, 2016, in the Central District of California,\u00a0Gregory Allen Justice was arrested by FBI special agents on federal charges of economic espionage and\u00a0violations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nsd201801"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremy-wu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}