A civilian defense contractor living in San Diego pleaded guilty to federal charges Thursday for accepting money from Chinese government representatives in exchange for providing aviation-related information from his American defense contractor employers.
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According to the plea agreement, Moinian was first approached by a Chinese contact, a woman who claimed to work for a technical recruiting company and offered Moinian the chance to consult for the aviation industry in China. According to the complaint filed against him, he made several internet searches in 2018 regarding “sabotage vs. spying,” “espionage vs. sabotage” and “selling military information to foreign country is considered as.”
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