Fungus Not Among Us: CCP-Linked Scholar Arrested for Scheme To Smuggle Crop-Destroying Pathogen Into US, Prosecutors Say

[Hol]

Authorities arrested a University of Michigan scholar with ties to the Chinese Communist Party for her involvement in allegedly smuggling a biological pathogen into the United States that could be used as a terrorism weapon to devastate U.S. food crops, according to a federal filing unsealed Tuesday.

Prosecutors have charged the scholar, 33-year-old Yunqing Jian, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, with conspiring to smuggle Fusarium graminearum, a crop-destroying fungus that produces toxins harmful to humans and livestock, into the United States. Investigators discovered evidence of Jian's membership in the CCP and say that she received funding from a CCP-backed foundation to conduct postdoctoral research on the pathogen, the Detroit News reported based on the filing.

Fungus Not Among Us: CCP-Linked Scholar Arrested for Scheme To Smuggle Crop-Destroying Pathogen Into US, Prosecutors Say

Authorities arrested a University of Michigan scholar and Chinese Communist Party member for allegedly smuggling a biological pathogen into the United States that could be used as a terrorism weapon to devastate U.S. food crops, according to a federal filing unsealed Tuesday.

freebeacon.com

 

[Margery]

Authorities arrested a University of Michigan scholar with ties to the Chinese Communist Party for her involvement in allegedly smuggling a biological pathogen into the United States that could be used as a terrorism weapon to devastate U.S. food crops, according to a federal filing unsealed Tuesday.

Prosecutors have charged the scholar, 33-year-old Yunqing Jian, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, with conspiring to smuggle Fusarium graminearum, a crop-destroying fungus that produces toxins harmful to humans and livestock, into the United States. Investigators discovered evidence of Jian's membership in the CCP and say that she received funding from a CCP-backed foundation to conduct postdoctoral research on the pathogen, the Detroit News reported based on the filing.

Fungus Not Among Us: CCP-Linked Scholar Arrested for Scheme To Smuggle Crop-Destroying Pathogen Into US, Prosecutors Say

Authorities arrested a University of Michigan scholar and Chinese Communist Party member for allegedly smuggling a biological pathogen into the United States that could be used as a terrorism weapon to devastate U.S. food crops, according to a federal filing unsealed Tuesday.

freebeacon.com

WOW
! Lifetime ban!!!! Maybe a jail sentence.

 

[CarlA]

We better decide who are our friends and keep our enemies out.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

LWOPP (Life (in prison) Without Possibility of Parole)
It gets really expensive and time-consuming to fight automatic death sentence appeals.

She was transporting with intent to use a biological WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD)
Millions and millions of people, plus livestock and crops, could have died

 

[CarlA]

Praying for safety.

 

[TCC]

Thanks Hollie. Just heard about this now. Good to see some strengths from the FBI. I wonder if this was meant for the midterms. Blessings.