Wenxia MAN Convicted of Attempting to Export Fighter Jet Engines & Drones

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(1) Press release: California Resident Convicted of Conspiring to Illegally Export Fighter Jet Engines and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to China. US Department of Justice, June 9, 2016.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/c ... ngines-and-unmanned
("was convicted today by a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida")

Quote: "According to evidence presented at trial, between approximately March 2011 and June 2013, Man conspired with Xinsheng Zhang, who was located in China, to illegally acquire and export to China defense articles including: Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 engines used in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter; Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines used in the F-22 Raptor fighter jet; General Electric F110-GE-132 engines designed for the F-16 fighter jet; the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper/Predator B Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, capable of firing Hellfire Missiles; and technical data for each of these defense articles.  During the course of the investigation, when talking to an HSI undercover agent, Man referred to Zhang, as a “technology spy” who worked on behalf of the Chinese military to copy items obtained from other countries and stated that he was particularly interested in stealth technology.

(2) Paula McMahon, Jury Convicts Woman Accused of S Fla Plot to Sell $50M Drone to China.  Broward County: Sun-sentinel, June 10, 2016.
www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/ ... 20160609-story.html

Quote: "Wenxia Man, aka Wency, 45, of San Diego * * * Man, who had been free on $250,000 bond since last year, was taken into federal custody for alleged misconduct during her trial in federal court in Miami. * * * Authorities accused her of improperly sending text messages to the federal agent who worked undercover on her case. The messages were in Chinese and sent during a break in his testimony in her trial. The agent, from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Homeland Security Investigations, reported the improper contact and U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom order Man taken into custody, according to court records. * * * Man was communicating with a person in Broward County [which decides the venue of the trial] who she thought could obtain the items.