Posted on 07/18/2005 7:29:12 PM PDT by Wiz
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A former FBI agent who had an affair with an accused Chinese double agent he was handling was sentenced to three months in home confinement in the climax of a bizarre spy saga.
Ex-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent James Smith, 61, was also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and sentenced to three years' probation for his role in the scandal that shook the US police agency.
Smith was sentenced under a plea bargain with prosecutors after admitting in court Wednesday that he had lied to his bosses about his two-decade "sexual relationship" with accused Chinese spy Katrina Leung.
Smith, who was arrested along with Leung in April 2003, had recruited and handled California businesswoman Leung to work as an agent for the FBI to pass on information about the Chinese government.
But wealthy Leung was also in pay of the Chinese government, prosecutors allege.
Smith was sentenced by the same judge who in January threw out charges of taking and copying national security documents against Leung, 51, after finding that prosecutors engaged in misconduct in the case against her.
Prosecutors, who allege Leung sneaked information out of Smith's briefcase during liaisons at her home, have appealed the dismissal to the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Prosecutors had urged the judge to put Smith behind bars for two months for his role in the scandal, a sentence they said would reflect the seriousness of his offence.
"This is not mere adultery. This is an affair with an intelligence asset, who was a double agent," Assistant US Attorney Rebecca Lonergan told US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper on Monday.
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ping
Geez.........it was just about sex.......< /sarcasm >
And the Chinese got what???
It was said.. he had the Wong girl....
Ping
"What may have been compromised ... we will not know," the prosecutor said. I don't know, he was probably just getting some on the clock. Clinton on the other hand, would have entrusted China launch into orbit a satellite with a top secret radiation hardened chip for two eight balls and a blow job from some fat peasant woman.
LOL!!!!!
Did they even take this scum buckets' pension? A wrist slap and what...$4,000 a month for life...some justice.
If he got this light a sentence, it's pretty sure Sandy Burglar will get the mother of all breaks.
I wonder how much the Chinese paid US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper? She let the spy off scot free, and slapped Smith's wrist for betraying his country.
Or is she just a useful idiot?
Her record via Google suggests that she loves to declare mistrials against murderers and traitors.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-27,GGLG:en&q=Florence%2DMarie+Cooper
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