Alexander Yuk Ching Ma pleaded guilty to accepting gifts from China in return for delivering US defense information
A screenshot made from a video by an FBI undercover employee taken of Alexander Yuk Ching Ma in January 2019 during a meeting.A screenshot made from a video by an FBI undercover employee taken of Alexander Yuk Ching Ma in January 2019 during a meeting.Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, made a deal in May with federal prosecutors, who agreed to recommend the 10-year term in exchange for his guilty plea to a count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to a foreign government.
Two years later, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist in the FBI’s Honolulu field office. By then, the Americans knew he was collaborating with Chinese intelligence officers, and they hired him in 2004 so they could keep an eye on his espionage activities. “Let it be a message to anyone else thinking of doing the same,” FBI Honolulu special agent-in-charge Steven Merrill said in a statement after Ma was sentenced. “No matter how long it takes, or how much time passes, you will be brought to justice.”
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