The 20-year sentence given to a former US intelligence officer convicted of giving China top secret information was upheld by the Fourth Circuit, even though the trial court used an evidentiary rule designed to keep sensitive evidence from public view on publicly available documents.
Kevin Mallory previously worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency but left the intelligence community to open his own consulting business in 2012. In 2017, Mallory was having financial problems when he was contacted by Michael Yang, a Chinese recruiter.
Mallory flew to China several times in 2017 to meet with Yang. ...
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