Paul Davis On Crime: Navy Lt Commander Edward Lin

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

October Trial Date Set For Navy Espionage Case

Brock Vergakis at the Virginian-Pilot offers a piece on the upcoming Navy espionage case.

The Navy set an Oct. 26 trial date Tuesday for an officer charged with spying and a litany of other crimes.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin faces two counts of espionage, three counts of attempted espionage and five counts of communicating defense information, among other things. He has pleaded not guilty.

Charging documents show military prosecutors believe Lin committed espionage from 2012 to 2014 in the Washington area.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/october-trial-set-date-for-navy-espionage-case/article_939cdb64-fe78-52a7-9605-8a9e8d514a85.html

Saturday, May 14, 2016

U.S. Navy Command Refers Espionage Case To Court-Martial

Brock Vergakis at the Virginian-Pilot offers a piece on the upcoming court-martial of a U.S. Navy officer for espionage and other offenses.

A Navy officer charged with espionage will be arraigned Tuesday after the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command referred the case to a general court-martial, the Navy said Friday.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin (seen in the above U.S. Navy photo) is a naval flight officer who faces two counts of espionage, three counts of attempted espionage and five counts of communicating defense information. Espionage is one of the most serious crimes in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, punishable under certain circumstances by death.

The last time a sailor was convicted of the crime was in 2006, when Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel Weinmann pleaded guilty to espionage and attempted espionage. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Lin was assigned to a secretive patrol squadron in Hawaii at the time of his Sept. 11 arrest at the Honolulu airport, and his prosecution has been designated a “national security case” by the Navy.

Lin also is charged with wrongfully transporting classified material and failing to report foreign contacts. Fleet Forces Commander Adm. Phil Davidson dismissed charges of adultery and patronizing a prostitute.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/admiral-refers-espionage-case-to-court-martial/article_d5fb2b2e-1716-5e1d-86c6-560cf0ba5456.html

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Preliminary Report On Edward Lin Spy Case, Decision To Prosecute With Fleet Forces CO

Sam LaGrone at the USNI News offers a piece on the Navy officer accused of espionage and other charges.

Investigators with the Navy have submitted their preliminary report and recommendation for prosecution on accusations that a U.S. Navy officer passed secrets to China and Taiwan, service officials told USNI News on Wednesday.

The report will recommend to U.S. Fleet Forces commander Adm. Phil Davidson whether or not to begin court martial proceedings Lt. Cmdr. Edward Chieh-Liang Lin, 39, for alleged acts of espionage and other charges.

Now the recommendation from the investigating officer has been submitted, Davidson will make the ultimate decision – based on the report’s findings – on how to proceed with the case.

The ultimate recommendation from the investigating officer was not provided to USNI News, but several lawyers with experience in national security cases have said that the likelihood Davidson would elect to forgo a court martial for another method of non-judicial punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice is slim.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://news.usni.org/2016/04/27/preliminary-report-on-edward-lin-spy-case-decision-to-prosecute-with-fleet-forces-co

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Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and Counterterrorism magazine, and he writes the magazine's online 'Threatcon' column. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. His crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer. He also worked part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist during this time. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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