https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-homeless-died-silicon-valley-2020-3
“dead drops”
Peng admitted that in March of 2015, he received instructions regarding how to use dead drops to exchange money for items to deliver to the PRC. Peng admitted that the official directed him to locate and reserve hotel rooms where he was to leave money and then depart for several hours. Peng was instructed to return later and retrieve small electronic storage devices that would be left for him. Thereafter, he was to fly to the PRC and deliver the retrieved devices to the PRC official. Peng never met nor interacted with the individual who left the devices for him and was instructed not to access the information was stored on the SD cards..01000000
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/hayward-resident-sentenced-four-years-acting-agent-people-s-republic-china
Iranian National Extradited to the Western District of Texas for Illegally Exporting Military Sensitive Items from the U.S. to Iran
Ansari, and his co-defendant Mehrdad Foomanie (aka Frank Foomanie) of Iran, are charged in a federal grand jury indictment returned in June 2012 with conspiracy to violate the Iranian Transactions Regulations (ITR), conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Foomanie remains a fugitive in this case. In October 2012, a third co-defendant, Susan Yip (aka Susan Yeh), a citizen of Taiwan, was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to violate the ITR by acting as a broker and conduit for Foomanie to buy items in the U.S. and have them unlawfully shipped to Iran.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/iranian-national-extradited-western-district-texas-illegally-exporting-military
Local casinos are closing as of tonight until at least march 31
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/17/duncan-hunter-sentenced-to-11-months-in-prison/