US prosecutors seek harsher charges in Chinese military ‘plot’

ChiComs up to their usual tricks. Seriously, anyone who thinks we can trust that regime any farther than we can throw them, has an EXTREMELY serious case of poor situational awareness.

US prosecutors warned they plan to seek harsher charges against an engineer and two kin accused of plotting to steal sensitive US Navy warship technology and trying to smuggle it to China.

Assistant US Attorney Greg Staples confirmed to US District Judge Cormac Carney that prosecutors intend to upgrade the charges from the current counts of acting as agents for the Beijing government without being registered to do so, a much lesser charge than espionage. “That’s correct,” Staples replied when Cormac asked if the US government intended to seek a new indictment containing “more serious charges” against the trio.

The three suspects were arrested in October after Mak Tai-Wing was arrested at Los Angeles airport as he and his wife boarded a flight to Hong Kong with an encrypted computer disc in their baggage, prosecutors allege. The disc contained highly-sensitive data allegedly taken by Chi Mak from a computer belonging to his employer, Paragon, a US military contractor developing secret stealth technology for US warships.

Rope. ChiCom Spies. Tree. Some assembly required.