#conspiracy to commit espionage

In March 2003, while living in Hawaiʻi, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu applied for a job as a contract linguist in the FBI’s Honolulu Field Office. The FBI, aware of Ma’s ties to People’s Republic of China intelligence, hired Ma as part of a ruse to monitor and investigate his activities and contacts with the Shanghai State Security Bureau.