Guilty pleas for selling $100M+ of refurbished & compromised CISCO networking equipment from China with counterfeit parts & software to make them appear legitimate to US users including the US military. From 2014-2022. #ButNothingsHappening justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-doz…
Onur Askoy of Turkey & Miami, Fl. ran these companies including selling on Amazon & eBay.
Added components to defeat Cisco security measures & conceal that they were fraudulent devices with bootleg software.
All counterfeited in China...
They don't mention backdoors or vulnerabilities but those are by far the biggest issue when these network components were used by schools, hospitals, government agencies & the US military.
So govt agencies & the military were purchasing counterfeit Cisco routers from the Chinese?
So Cisco sent them 7 strongly worded letters between 2014 & 2019 to stop it.
While Customs & Border Patrol seized 180 shipments of these devices from 2014-2022, but never stopped the organization.
Were they waiting for a sealed invitation?
To get a deal of 4-6 1/2 years in prison he likely flipped on his Chinese counterfeiters. Wonder if they were just a front for Chinese intelligence?
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Executives & lobbyists convicted for participating in an 8 year scheme to bribe Illinois officials, including then Speaker of the House Mike Madigan for Swampy favors for ComEd.
Record seizures & arrests for trafficking opioids & fentanyl on the darknet.
It's like the key nodes in the global corruption services industry have all be compromised & are being used against the cartels, organized crime & corrupt officials... #ButNothingsHappening
Woolsey & other Swamp Creatures served on the advisory board of a casino in the North Marianas Islands that was laundering Chinese money into the US.
Their job, advise the crooks on how to navigate the Swamp in DC & other places.
If you have missed the decade of global swamp draining connected to the 1MDB case, you don't know what the Swamp is, how it works, or how it is being drained.
How serious? Like President Xi offering bribes to President Trump to obstruct the FBI serious...
I can't find anyone reporting the name of the 2 PetroSaud managers. My guesses would be the Obaid brothers, guys I call the Kevin Bacon's of global corruption. From them every Swamp creature on the planet is within 6 degrees of separation.
From 2009-2019 one of the largest tobacco companies in the world used their Singapore subsidiary to sell tobacco to North Korea in violation of sanctions & launder the proceeds of the sales.
Plead guilty & agreed to cooperate with the feds.
3 individuals involved have also been indicted but have not yet been captured. One is a North Korean banker & the other 2 are Chinese facilitators.
Part of a larger scheme of tobacco related corruption used by the North Korean government to fund other activities including their nuclear weapons program.
The indictment of 40+ Chinese MPS officers is now online.
Very interesting how closely the trolling tactics mirror the techniques we run into with various groups of trolls. Both the Tuesday Trolls of this era & the Cleetuses of a few years ago... justice.gov/d9/2023-04/squ…
This is from a meme they shared internally.
I'm sure we can find some way to use it on the CCP agents pretending to be MAGA or UltraMAGA or DarkMAGA or whatever the CCP wants to rebrand as...
Those accounts trying to tell people that President Xi is secretly on Trump's side & that MAGA should like him...