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Defense contractor pleads guilty to giving secrets to ‘Russian spy’

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"The agent found that Justice had sent more than $21,000 in cash via FedEx to the woman he believed to be Chay. He also placed orders and paid for nearly $6,000 worth of items on Amazon.com, and had them sent to her home in Long Beach."

Defense contractor pleads guilty to giving secrets to ‘Russian spy’

This is such a great story. He thought the FBI guys were Russian agents and he thought the woman he was communicating with online with a European model.

So. If we implement an identity infrastructure that can show him that his lady love is not a European model, how can that same identity infrastructure not show him that the Russian agent is an FBI guy.

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