tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74515304118350444192024-03-13T05:33:07.495-07:00Walnut TattlerWELCOME TO THE WALNUT TATTLER
Where we look into the political nonsense in the City of Walnut, California. We ask questions and look for answers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451530411835044419.post-21266429087029799772012-03-30T08:40:00.000-07:002012-04-11T12:40:25.184-07:00WALNUT COUNCIL MEMBER JOAQUIN LIM STILL REFUSES TO PAY COURT ORDERED JUDGEMENT.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soon to be out of office, Walnut City Council Member, Joaquin Lim, as of this date, has not<strong><em> paid back his former employer, Charles Schwab for accidently paying him for twenty one months</em></strong> after he left their employment. Council member Joaquin Lim has ignored the judgement, and the judgement was renewed in 2010 after ten years of Lim refusing to pay. Lim just <em><strong>thumbs his nose</strong></em> at the original court decision <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2bDcu_u0x0gNzI2YTUzNWMtMjljMC00YTZiLWIyZDktNmVjNGRiY2I2NDM4&hl=en_US" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">(click here)</span></b></a>. Judge Ryan, the arbitrator called Council member Lim's behaviour <strong><em><span style="color: red;">despicable</span></em></strong>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is interesting to note that at the time, Lim was going through a shoplifting trial <a href="http://www.joaquinlim.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">(click here)</span></strong></a> for supposedly stealing some merchandise at Albertsons and allegedly told arresting agents he was having money trouble. When he testified in his own defense in the trial, he denied ever having said that to the arresting deputies. According to the Los Angeles Times, "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>Deputy District Attorney Larson questioned Lim's assertions of financial well-being, pointing out that the same month as the alleged theft, a credit card company had suspended Lim's privileges because of nonpayment</i>."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We wonder if anyone knew about his Charles Schwab problems. Do you think that might have made a difference to the jury that aquited him? The statute of limitations has passed, and a <b><em><a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=118-131" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">perjury</span></a></em> </b>conviction is out of the question. Too bad the District Attorney didn't know about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">$159,540.77 would buy a lot of things from Albertsons. Thankfully, Joaquin Lim leaves the Walnut City Council April 25, 2012. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2002 Walnut Council member <b>Joaquin Lim</b> led a<b> delegation</b> to Walnut City Hall of visitors. Joining Lim with the delegation was<b> Katrina Leung </b>of San Marino. Lim showed the delegation around which was interested in starting a sister city or friendship city with the City of Walnut. Lim has been involved in establishing sister city relationships with China, and frequently visits that country teaching Chinese government officials American government.. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought it would be in informative to reprint the following Wikepedia article, to let you know who Joaquin Lim is bringing to Walnut City Hall. Shortly after the visit<b>, Katrina Leung</b> was arrested for<b> espionage</b> by the <b>Federal Bureau of Investigation</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We leave it to you, to connect the dots. <b>Leung</b> was ultimately convicted of being a liar, and a tax cheat.</span><br />
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"<b>Katrina Leung</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">simplified Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh-Hans" xml:lang="zh-Hans">陈文英</span>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">traditional Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh-Hant" xml:lang="zh-Hant">陳文英</span>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i>Chén Wényīng</i>) (aka Chan Man Ying, Chen Wen Ying, Luo Zhongshan, Parlor Maid) was a former high value <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China">PRC Ministry of State Security</a> (MSS) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">agent</a> who, on April 9, 2003, was indicted by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> for "Unauthorized Copying of National Defense Information with Intent to Injure or Benefit a Foreign Nation". Her case was later dismissed on January 6, 2005 because of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_misconduct" title="Prosecutorial misconduct">prosecutorial misconduct</a>. It is unclear whether her primary loyalty while working as an asset lay with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>, or herself. Regardless, she is alleged by the United States Government to have contaminated twenty years of intelligence relating to the People's Republic of China as well as critically compromising the FBI's Chinese <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterintelligence" title="Counterintelligence">counterintelligence</a> program.<br />
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Leung <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigrated" title="Emigrated">emigrated</a> to the United States in 1970 using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China" title="Republic of China">Republic of China</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport" title="Passport">passport</a> stating that she was born on May 1, 1954, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>. (The information about Leung's background is unclear because her official immigration documents significantly differ from what Leung herself has revealed about her background.) Leung enrolled at Washington Irving High School in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City,_New_York" title="New York City, New York">New York City, New York</a> and graduated in June 1972. She became a permanent <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_alien" title="Resident alien">resident alien</a> on August 7, 1972.<br />
Leung attended and obtained an <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate" title="Undergraduate">undergraduate</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">degree</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> in 1976. She then went on and obtained a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Business_Administration" title="Masters of Business Administration">Masters of Business Administration</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>. It was somewhere during this time as a student that Leung was contacted by the FBI for information on some of her acquaintances.<br />
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In 1980, Leung moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> and occupied an apartment building which contained numerous tenants that were subjects of other FBI investigations. She developed a close relationship with a pro-PRC activist who was under FBI investigation for illegally transferring technology from the U.S. to the PRC. Leung became the general manager of an import-export company which in late 1980 had become the subject of an FBI investigation dealing with the illegal transfer of technology from the U.S. to the PRC. On February 10, 1981, the FBI launched an investigation into Leung, believing that she was engaging in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_operation" title="Clandestine operation">clandestine</a> intelligence-gathering on behalf of the PRC. Leung eventually left her job at the import-export company, closing the FBI investigation on her. The PRC activist was arrested in China, closing that investigation as well.<br />
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In 1982, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Smith" title="James J. Smith">FBI Special Agent James J. Smith</a> re-opened the FBI investigation into Leung hoping that she could provide him with additional information on the PRC activist as well as other miscellaneous information. Smith was so impressed with the information Leung provided that he converted her into an FBI asset codename "Parlor Maid" in December of the same year. Eight months later in August 1983, Leung and Smith started an illicit affair which would span past Smith's retirement in 2002. She convinced him that she would not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail" title="Blackmail">blackmail</a> him because she had as much to lose as he did if their relationship was ever revealed.<br />
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On March 16, 1984, Leung (with Smith's help) became a U.S. citizen. The FBI had developed a plan for her to be recruited by the Chinese <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China">Ministry of State Security</a> as an asset working as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_agent" title="Double agent">double agent</a> for the United States. In June 1984, Leung was recruited by the MSS, who believed at the time that she was a low-level source of information at the FBI's Los Angeles office. Leung began receiving money from the FBI to pay for her expenses (the majority going towards flights to and from China). She passed two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph" title="Polygraph">polygraph</a> examinations, one in September 1984 and one in June 1986.<br />
Between 1985–1990, Leung's profile within the West Coast Chinese community and the FBI had risen significantly. Her connections within the community had become so extensive, she had entertained Chinese diplomatic officials as well as organized high-profile banquets for visiting PRC officials from the mainland. During this time, she met and charmed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="President of the People's Republic of China">President of China</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shangkun" title="Yang Shangkun">Yang Shangkun</a> who eventually became her <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron" title="Patron">patron</a>. As a sign of her growing influence in the PRC, she advised the Chinese government in 1998 on a new location for their Los Angeles <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulate" title="Consulate">consulate</a>.<br />
Up to this point, Leung's reports were well received by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a>, and much of her reporting during this time had also been verified by a Chinese <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defector" title="Defector">defector</a>. A sign of her growing influence within the FBI could be seen when she was sent to China shortly after the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre" title="Tiananmen Square Massacre">Tiananmen Square Massacre</a> to report on the country's political climate during a time when the country's information flow had virtually ceased.<br />
Leung began an illicit sexual affair with another FBI special agent, William Cleveland Jr., during the late 1980s, although it is unclear if she obtained any classified information from him during this affair.<br />
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In June 1990, the FBI learned that Leung had revealed to MSS officials the existence and location of a classified operation as well as classified details of the FBI's counterintelligence program. The FBI headquarters chief questioned Leung's handler Smith, who flatly denied it ever happened and successfully convinced his superior that she would never do such a thing without his authorization. Smith privately confronted Leung on May 31, 1991 about the unauthorized disclosure of information. In response, she told him that her Chinese handler "Mao" had discovered her double-agent identity and had coerced her into giving additional information.<br />
In April 1991, the FBI obtained an audio recording of a conversation between a woman identifying herself as "Luo" and a known PRC intelligence official identifying himself as "Mao". Special Agent Cleveland was brought in to listen to the tape and immediately recognized the woman's voice as Leung's. Leung had, among other things, detailed without authorization the itinerary of a recent trip that Cleveland had taken with the State Department to the PRC. Cleveland immediately notified Smith of the breach and in May of the same year, the two traveled to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. for a high-level meeting concerning herself. In addition to the analysts recommendations, Smith defended the suspicious activities of Leung and managed to convince his superiors that terminating her as an asset was not the best course of action. The FBI accepted his recommendation based on his extensive experience handling Leung, as well as his experience in the FBI and the analyst's recommendation.<br />
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The FBI obtained a warrant under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act" title="Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act</a> to surveil Leung as part of an investigation into her activities. They conducted a limited consensual search of Leung's residence and found an FBI telephone directory, a telephone list relating to an FBI investigation codename "Royal Tourist", a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States#Secret" title="Classified information in the United States">secret</a> FBI memo concerning Chinese fugitives, and an FBI legal directory.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AFFIDAVIT_0-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Leung#cite_note-AFFIDAVIT-0">[1]</a></sup><br />
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The FBI conducted a covert search into Leung's luggage at Los Angeles International Airport before and after a trip she takes to the PRC. Six photographs of FBI agents, two of whom were on active duty, were missing from her baggage upon her arrival back into the U.S.<br />
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The FBI learned that Leung had surreptitiously copied a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States#Top_secret" title="Classified information in the United States">top-secret</a> document that her handler Smith had checked out overnight from the FBI and transmitted the information to her MSS handler.<br />
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The FBI conducted surveillance of Leung and her handler Smith on November 5, 2002 in a Los Angeles hotel room, to determine if they were having a sexual relationship and if Smith's earlier denial of that relationship were true.<br />
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Leung was arrested by the Department of Justice on the morning of April 9, 2003 at her residence in San Marino, and charged with "Unauthorized Copying of National Defense Information with Intent to Injure or Benefit a Foreign Nation in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(b)".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-K_INDICTMENT_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Leung#cite_note-K_INDICTMENT-1">[2]</a></sup> She was not charged with either <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">espionage</a> presumably because her prosecutors did not feel they had adequate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence" title="Evidence">evidence</a> to guarantee a conviction that historically had been notoriously difficult to secure.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2009">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> She was denied bail because she was deemed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_risk" title="Flight risk">flight risk</a>. Leung spent three months in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jail" title="Jail">jail</a> and 18 months in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_arrest" title="House arrest">house arrest</a>.<br />
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On January 6, 2005, U.S. District Judge Florence Marie Cooper dismissed Leung's case on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. Judge Cooper found that Leung's constitutional right to a witness necessary to her defense had been violated in the language of retired Special Agent Smith's <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_agreement" title="Plea agreement">plea agreement</a>, specifically that he "could not share further information relating to the case with Leung or her counsel".<br />
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The <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Attorney" title="U.S. Attorney">U.S. Attorney</a>'s office appealed the case to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>, and entered plea negotiations with Leung concerning illegal tax returns that had been revealed as a result of this case. On December 16, 2005, Leung pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI and one count of filing a false federal tax return. Leung was sentenced to the terms of her <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_agreement" title="Plea agreement">plea agreement</a>, which stated that she must cooperate in full debriefings, three years <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probation" title="Probation">probation</a>, 100 hours of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service" title="Community service">community service</a>, and a US$10,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_%28penalty%29" title="Fine (penalty)">fine</a>.<br />
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The ability for Leung to operate for such an extraordinary length of time before being caught exposed serious systemic flaws in the way the FBI's China program operated their counterintelligence program. The primary problem that was identified was the Los Angeles's office <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralist" title="Decentralist">decentralization</a> culture, in which supervisors took a "hands off" approach with their case officers, functioning more in a support role for their <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_handler" title="Agent handler">agent handlers</a> rather than a command one. This flaw allowed Special Agent Smith to operate so long without being properly accounted for. Smith's superiors would regularly defer to Smith, given his superior expertise and experience regarding Chinese counterintelligence, as well as his long relationship with top asset Parlor Maid. In addition, Smith's high profile at the agency and the high profile of his asset meant that he could afford a laxer standard when it came to administrative or bureaucratic regulations. Smith often manipulated or disregarded many routine procedures, in part out of convenience and in part out of fear that exposure of his sexual relationship with Leung would end his career. This behavior by Smith allowed Leung's suspicious activities to go unaccounted throughout her 20-year involvement with the FBI.<br />
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The damage of Katrina Leung's activities are unclear within the intelligence community, primarily because she had been working for so long undetected by the FBI, and that much of the information she obtained was through informal conversation or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillow_talk" title="Pillow talk">pillow talk</a>, which is much more difficult to trace compared to a stolen document. In addition, she is legally bound by the plea agreement she signed with the U.S. Attorney's office in 2005 to cooperate with debriefings about her activities as an FBI asset, which may significantly limit the lasting impact of her actions while working as a double agent.<br />
Because of the nature of espionage and its rare ability to prove facts beyond a doubt, many of the examples listed here that may have been compromised by Katrina Leung have not been conclusively proven, and so remain speculative.<br />
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In 1979, Leung became a source in FBI Special Agent Cleveland's investigation, codenamed "Tiger Trap", concerning aeronautical engineer from Taiwan <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwo-Bao_Min&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Gwo-Bao Min (page does not exist)">Gwo-Bao Min</a> working at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a>. In 1981, Cleveland confronted Min about his suspicious activities, but was unable to secure enough evidence to indict Min on criminal charges. Min was forced instead to resign and went into private business. Cleveland lamented privately that Min was on the verge of confessing to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">espionage</a> but abruptly stopped talking to the authorities one day. Years later in 1990, Cleveland, while traveling with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">State Department</a> delegation to a remote area of China near the North Korean border, literally bumped into Gwo-Bao Min in the lobby of his hotel. He later learned from an intercepted phone communication that Leung had detailed his <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itinerary" title="Itinerary">itinerary</a> to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China">Ministry of State Security</a> officer prior to his arrival in China. Considerable debate continues within the intelligence community over whether or not this encounter between Cleveland and Min was truly a coincidence.<br />
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Leung started an illicit affair in late 1988 with Special Agent Cleveland, who after leaving the FBI became head of security at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a>. In 1999, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Report" title="Cox Report">Cox Report</a> would allege that the security at several high-level U.S. weapons labs had been compromised, and that Chinese agents had copied or stolen classified information regarding <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon" title="Thermonuclear weapon">thermonuclear weapons</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRV" title="MIRV">MIRV</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W88" title="W88">w88</a>, and other missile technology. Among the labs severely criticized was Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It is possible that Leung may have acquired from Cleveland classified details regarding security at the lab, though Cleveland himself denied under oath that he gave any classified information to Leung.<br />
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Smith" title="James J. Smith">James J. Smith</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Intelligence_Operations_in_the_United_States" title="Chinese Intelligence Operations in the United States">Chinese Intelligence Operations in the United States</a></li>
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<li id="cite_note-AFFIDAVIT-0"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Leung#cite_ref-AFFIDAVIT_0-0">^</a></b> Thomas, Randall. <i>Affidavit</i>, 12-13</li>
<li id="cite_note-K_INDICTMENT-1"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Leung#cite_ref-K_INDICTMENT_1-0">^</a></b> <i>Indictment against Katrina Leung</i>, 1</li>
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<li>Thomas, Randall. <a class="external text" href="http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/fbi/usleung403cmp.pdf" rel="nofollow">Affidavit</a>. <i>Affidavit supporting an arrest warrant for Katrina Leung</i>. (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a>)</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/fbi/usleung50803ind.pdf" rel="nofollow">Indictment against Katrina Leung</a>. <i>Indictment against Katrina Leung for Unauthorized Copying of National Defense Information with Reason to Believe That It Will Injure the United States or Benefit a Foreign Nation</i>. (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a>)</li>
<li>Kan, Shirley A. <a class="external text" href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL30143.pdf" rel="nofollow">CRS Report for Congress</a> Congressional Research Service Report for Congress - China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets] (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a>)</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0605/final.pdf" rel="nofollow">DOJ Review of Handling of Katrina Leung</a>. (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a>) <i>U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General - A Review of the FBI's Handling and Oversight of FBI asset Katrina Leung. (U) Unclassified Executive Summary</i></li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061004215040/http://binhan.home.netcom.com/KatrinaDismissOrder.pdf" rel="nofollow">Court Order Dismissing Leung's Case</a> <i>Order Granting Defendant's motion to Dismiss</i> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a>)</li>
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<li>Kirk, Michael (Director). (2004). <a class="external text" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/" rel="nofollow">Frontline: From China with Love</a> [Documentary]. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, Florida: PBS Video</li>
<li><span class="citation book"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gertz" title="Bill Gertz">Gertz, Bill</a> (2006). <i>Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets–and How We Let It Happen</i>. New York: Crown Forum.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Enemies%3A+How+America%27s+Foes+Steal+Our+Vital+Secrets%E2%80%93and+How+We+Let+It+Happen&rft.aulast=Gertz&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=Gertz%2C%26%2332%3BBill&rft.date=2006&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Crown+Forum&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Katrina_Leung"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li>
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Rosemead politician John Tran, who is politically supported by Walnut City Council member Joaquin Lim was indicted today for bribery. A check of Councilman Joaquin Lim's very most recent Campaign Election Statement, form<span style="background-color: white;"><u> <b><a href="http://ci.walnut.ca.us/upload/LIM460-7-28-11.PDF" target="_blank">460 lis</a>ts</b></u> </span>Tran as a recent recipient of hefty campaign funds from the Friends of Joaquin Lim. Tran faces up to ten years in Federal prison for bribery in connection with developers in the City of Rosemead. Will the other shoe drop?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451530411835044419.post-56867100505809657712012-01-17T19:51:00.000-08:002012-04-11T12:32:32.258-07:00"I'll be back...."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The puppet master is going underground for a couple of years. He hopes people will forget. We were just starting to ask questions about his offshore business arrangement. Now he has time to pay off the court judgements he owes. Maybe he will take care of that hangover problem we read about in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.... But <strong>there is a lot more. </strong>But we won't kick him while he is down. We will save that for two years from now when he tries to come back.<br />
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Outgoing Walnut City Council member <b>Joaquin Lim's </b>Planning Commissioner<b> Johnny Chua</b> resigned Wednesday for unknown reasons. Chua had been reportedly under investigation by local authorities after he filed repeated incorrect Statements of Economic Interest forms with the City Clerk alleging no reportable conflicts of interests. <br />
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Chua recently filed amendments with the City Clerks office correcting his prior reports. Chua did printing for Council member Lim and other Council members, and was responsible for a mailer done by the City explaining the Council position on the National Football Stadium in the City of Industry. Statements of Interest are filed with the City Clerk and the State of California under penalty of perjury. No announcement has been made by either the City or the District Attorney regarding the Chua matter.<br />
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This is the <b>second recent commissioner to resign</b> appointed by Joaquin Lim. A previous <b>Parks and Recreation Commissioner resigned </b>after it was learned that<b> she did not live in the City of Walnut</b>, which is a violation of local ordinances. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451530411835044419.post-43570521084786499272011-11-05T16:35:00.000-07:002012-04-11T12:23:38.319-07:00Walnut City Council Apparently Tires of Joaquin Lim<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Joaquin Lim recently announced his newest campaign for re-election and something was <em><strong>obviously missing:</strong></em> Fewer friends of Joaquin Lim were present. His colleagues on the Council were<strong><em> not</em></strong> there to support him. Lim has seen a<em><strong> obvious erosion of support</strong></em> from the City Council since associating with the group involved in the failed recall of Council Members Mary Su and Nancy Tragarz. His support for failed anti-stadium activists disguised as City Council candidates also wore out his welcome with the rest of the City Council. <br />
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Joaquin Lim was quickly <strong><em>passed over for Mayor Pro Tem</em></strong> in the last Council re-organization. It looks like Lim has very <em><strong>little chance of being Mayor</strong></em> in the upcoming re-organization. The Tattler speculates that Lim's <a href="http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvgov/2009/03/i-am-so-hung-over.html" target="_blank"><em><strong><span style="color: blue;">hangover statements to reporters</span></strong></em></a> did not endear him to the City Council. City Council members usually do not want to associate with fools in public.<br />
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With the election season starting off, we wonder if we will again receive the infamous <em><strong>Christmas Card from an Atheist</strong></em> this year. Lim usually has a batch of Christmas cards sent out to the voters whenever he runs for office. The cards may be again printed in <em><strong><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-11-07/china-style-democracy-elections-Communist-Party/51115784/1?csp=34news" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">China</span></a></strong></em>. Joaquin Lim has often claimed publicly that <u><em><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.equip.org/articles/atheists-and-the-quest-for-objective-morality" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>he is an atheist</strong></span></a></span></em></u>. Lim is entitlted to his beliefs, though we wonder if that puts a spin on his moral compass.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0