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Executive Grant of Clemency TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: WHEREAS SHANLIN JIN, Reg. No. 27074-509, was convicted, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, on an indictment (Docket No. 4:21 -CR-00048- ALM-CAN(1)) charging violations of Section 2252A, Title 18, United States Code, for which a total sentence of 97 months' imprisonment, five years' supervised release, restitution of $30,500, forfeiture of specific property, and a $100 special assessment was imposed on July 14 and 19, 2022;and WHEREAS the said SHANLIN JIN has been confined continuously since his arrest on January 24, 2021...

FBI PHOTO An employee of the video platform Zoom who is based in China was spying on Chinese dissidents for the Communist Chinese government, according to a federal indictment announced on Friday.Xinjiang Jin, also known as Julien Jin, was charged with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification. Some of his targets were living in the United States.Jin served as Zoom’s in-house liaison to the Chinese government and had extensive interaction with Zoom executives in the United States.Daily Caller:John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said that the case shows that U.S....

Defendant Coordinated with the People’s Republic of China to Target Dissidents and Disrupt MeetingsA complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Xinjiang Jin, also known as “Julien Jin,” with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification. Jin, an employee of a U.S.-based telecommunications company (Company-1) who was based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), allegedly participated in a scheme to disrupt a series of meetings in May and June 2020 held to commemorate the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in the PRC. The meetings were...

The spy fabricated fake evidence of child porn and terrorism to frame Zoom users A former executive at Zoom, who shut down video conferences that were not flattering to China, was exposed as a spy for the Chinese Communist Party, according to the Department of Justice. Xinjiang Jin, aka Julien Jin, was an employee of the American video conferencing company. The 39-year-old, who was based in China's Zhejiang Province, worked as a "security technical leader" for tech company headquartered in San Jose, California. Jin served as a liaison between Zoom and the Chinese government after Beijing blocked the company's service...

Pentagon needs prodding to send in IED-busters Deploy the golf carts, Mr. President. Over the weekend we editorially lamented some of the misspending in the proposed new Defense Department budget and suggested some of the billions for high tech planes and submarines would be better spent on needed armor for our troops in Iraq and for better equipment for detecting improvised explosive devices. Coincidentally, we learn from the Los Angeles Times reports, that such an IED-buster does exist - it's called a JIN or Joint IED Neutralizer - and it has destroyed 90 percent of roadside explosives in extensive Army...

Posted on Thu, Jul. 07, 2005 Tech company unveils roadside bomb neutralizer EBA HAMID SUN HERALD Techology company Ionatron unveiled a vehicle Thursday to help counter improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs, in Iraq. The joint IED neutralizer was developed by Ionatron employees at Stennis Space Center. The machine, which can destroy, detonate and disable IEDs, can reach speeds of more than 25 mph. "When you’re driving through the streets of Iraq, you never know when something’s going to blow up," Ionatron spokeman Mark Corallo said. "JIN disables and destroys devices before terrorists set them off." Twelve of the counter...

BEAUTY LOST, BEAUTY FOUND: Violin maker nears end of `impossible' Stradivarian quest By BOOYEON LEE:Special to The Asahi Shimbun -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A young man was soothed by the sound of violins drifting on the night air. He went on to become one of the world's greatest craftsmen. To look at Jin Chang Heryern as the soft afternoon light streamed into his Tokyo workshop, one could easily picture Antonio Stradivari bent over his workbench in Cremona, Italy. Jin wiped a speck of dust from his newest creation, much as Stradivari must have done many times before he died in 1737, taking, some...