Hearing On Reinstatement After Espionage Conviction And Disbarment

A District of Columbia Ad Hoc Hearing Committee is conducting a hearing on a petition for reinstatement.

Petitioner Theresa Squillacote was convicted of an espionage offense and disbarred over two decades ago

12/7/2021

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2021/12/hearing-on-reinstatement-after-espionage-conviction-and-disbarment.html

In the Supreme Court of the United States

THERESA MARIE SQUILLACOTE AND KURT ALAN STAND, PETITIONERS

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, petitioners Theresa Marie Squillacote and Kurt Alan Stand were convicted on…

https://www.justice.gov/osg/brief/squillacote-v-united-states-opposition

Theresa Marie Squillacote a former senior staff lawyer in the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, her husband Kurt Stand and friend James Clark, a private investigator, were arrested 4 Oct 1997 on charges of spying for East Germany and Russia.

Theresa Squillacote traveled regularly through the Soviet Bloc and even named her children Rosa and Karl (after the German Communist "martyrs" Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht).

During the Clinton administration, after receiving yet another, higher clearance, Squillacote went to work at the Pentagon itself. In 1995, Theresa Squillacote received a "Reinventing Government" award from Vice President Al Gore.

All three co-conspirators in the Stand case were former members of the [Young Workers Liberation League].

Kurt Stand, Theresa Squillacote and Maximillian Stand were all members of the Communist Party USA splinter group, Committees of Correspondence.

https://www.keywiki.org/Theresa_Squillacote

Subject of: Young Communist League

Object Number: 2013.68.13.1-.2

Pinback buttons for the [Young Workers Liberation League]

1965-1984

ink on paper with metal and plastic

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray

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