Longtime State Department Staffer Charged For Lying About Gifts From Chinese

Eric Tucker and Ben Nuckols / AP, Time: Politics
Wed, 03/29/2017 - 1:27pm

(WASHINGTON) — A veteran State Department employee has been charged with making false statements to the FBI about gifts she had received from Chinese intelligence agents, the Justice Department said Wednesday. A criminal complaint accuses Candace Marie Claiborne, who appeared before a judge Wednesday, of concealing her contacts with the intelligence agents and failing to report gifts she had received from them, including an iPhone, a laptop and international travel. Claiborne, 60, was arrested Tuesday.

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