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The makers of a super-hard smartphone glass made partially of synthetic diamonds took part in an FBI sting on Huawei, according to a new Bloomberg report. The operation apparently took place at a Prime Burger joint in Vegas during CES last month, while a Businessweek reporter watched from a nearby gelato stand. The embattled Chinese company had ordered samples of the "Miraj Diamond Glass" from US startup Akhan Semiconductor in 2017, only to return them badly damaged. Suspecting Huawei of intellectual property theft, Akhan's founder Adam Khan reportedly contacted the FBI, which drafted him and COO Carl Shurboff to take part in its Huawei investigations.
Email and text communications between the startup and a Huawei engineer were reportedly forwarded to the agency as part of the inquiry. A phone call between Khan, Shurboff and the same Huawei representative was also allegedly tapped on December 10th. Then came the Vegas sting, with the same Huawei staffer in attendance along with her colleague, Jennifer Lo, a senior official with the company in Santa Clara, California. Unbeknown to them, Khan and Shurboff were allegedly taping the entire get-together.
Throughout the meeting, the Huawei reps denied that it had violated US export laws, including provisions of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which control the export of materials with defense applications -- diamond being one of those materials. They also "claimed ignorance" when it came to the damaged samples.
The FBI also raided a Huawei lab in San Diego. This particular investigation has not resulted in any charges yet.
Also at CNBC.
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(Score: 2, Flamebait) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:10AM (3 children)
Bloomberg is very crooked, I absolutely wouldn't put it past them to collude with the F.B.I. Bloomberg makes it sound like, oh, their Reporter was just there for the C.E.S. And having a Gelato or two. I don't know. I don't know. You smell a rat. And there's a lot of rats in this story. Actually they're all rats.
But they say, "Khan and Shurboff had expected to conduct the sting in the safety and quiet of the FBI’s room at CES." Like they weren't expecting the Hamburger Stand. They met at the Hamburger Stand and it wasn't great for the "tape." Because it's at the Food Court -- too loud. Why are restaurants getting so damned noisy? And why didn't they do the Take Out? You buy the fast food, you take it somewhere nice and private.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:31AM
(cont) By the way, SoylentNews. Their headline says During C.E.S. Same time, could be anywhere. Bloomberg, different headline. And if you get into the story, they don't just say during the C.E.S. They say at C.E.S. At. And who knows, it might even be true.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:37AM (1 child)
Is this the same Bloomberg that made hard to believe claims about the China pwning stuff by embedding pencil tip sized stuff between motherboard layers? Instead of doing far more plausible stuff?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies [bloomberg.com]
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d35556a4e7a457a6333566d54/share.html [cgtn.com]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:03PM
This is the same Bloomberg that violated a firm OFF THE RECORD statement.