Source: http://heavy.com/news/2017/03/candace-claiborne-state-department-employee-fbi-lying-china-spies-bribes/
Candace Claiborne: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
1. A Male Subject & Claiborne Are Accused of Receiving Thousands of Dollars in Gifts & Cash From Chinese Intelligence Agents
2. Claiborne Holds a Top Secret Security Clearance & Allegedly Lied to the FBI After Accusing the Chinese Intel Agents of Being ‘Spies’
3. Claiborne Has Been an Employee of the Department of State Since 1999 & Lived With Her Accomplice In Shanghai
4. Claiborne Had a Journal Where She Wrote About Her Misconduct
5. The Maximum Penalty Claiborne Faces Is 25 Years In a Federal Prison
Per the DOJ press release:
According to the affidavit, Claiborne noted in her journal that she could “Generate 20k in 1 year” working with one of the PRC agents, who, shortly after wiring $2,480 to Claiborne, tasked her with providing internal U.S. Government analyses on a U.S.-Sino Strategic Economic Dialogue that had just concluded.
Claiborne, who allegedly confided to a co-conspirator that the PRC agents were “spies,” willfully misled State Department background investigators and FBI investigators about her contacts with those agents, the affidavit states. After the State Department and FBI investigators contacted her, Claiborne also instructed her co-conspirators to delete evidence connecting her to the PRC agents, the affidavit alleges.