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The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended numerous ...
This category covers people convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, unless the conviction was overturned by a court of competent jurisdiction. Pages in category "People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917"
Convicted of six counts of the espionage act for providing classified information to Wikileaks: July 30, 2013 35-year sentence, commuted (released May 17, 2017) Dongfan "Greg" Chung Chinese Convicted of economic espionage; stole trade secrets related to the US Space Shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket and provided them to China [2] July 16 ...
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This category includes people who were charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 but were ultimately found innocent, either because of an acquittal, or an equivalent outcome such as an overturned conviction, dropped charges, a plea deal, a hung jury, a mistrial, or the like.
Espionage against a nation is a crime under the legal code of many nations. In the United States, it is covered by the Espionage Act of 1917. The risks of espionage vary. A spy violating the host country's laws may be deported, imprisoned, or even executed.
: This is part of the Espionage Act. The law forbids 'unauthorized persons' from taking 'national defense' information and either 'retaining' it or delivering it to 'persons not entitled to receive it'. [4] [5; 1 and 2: These are from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
Prosecutors quickly dropped the Espionage Act and perjury charges, [5] assessing the risk from requiring classified documents as evidence as greater than the need to convict Nickerson under the higher charges. [10] Instead they settled for a plea deal from Nickerson on the 15 lesser charges, one which he had signed three days prior to the trial ...