Candace Marie Claiborne accepted tens of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts in exchange for internal State Department documents.
A State Department employee has been jailed for three years after accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from Chinese agents trying to access internal documents.
Claiborne—who had a"top secret" security clearance—pleaded guilty to the charges in April. She had been a State Department employee since 1999 and served in multiple overseas postings, including in U.S. embassies and consulates in Baghdad, Iraq, Khartoum, Sudan, and Beijing and Shanghai, China. Instead, she accepted tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits for her and her family over a five year period. This included cash wired to her bank account, presents on Chinese New Year, free vacations, paid-for tuition at a Chinese school, a furnished apartment and a monthly stipend.
Furthermore, once confronted by the State Department and FBI about the contacts, Claiborne told her co-conspirators to delete any evidence linking her to the Chinese agents.
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