Katrina Leung, who allegedly illegally obtained classified FBI documents while acting as a double agent for China, was freed on $2-million bond on the condition that she be monitored, federal authorities said Friday. Leung, 49, a wealthy businesswoman from San Marino, was released from the downtown Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center late Thursday and is being monitored by the U.S. Marshals Service, a federal prison official said. Under the terms of her release, Leung is restricted to her home, her lawyers' offices and an unidentified location where defense attorneys are to review classified government documents in the case. She had been held without bail since her arrest April 9. Source: The Los Angeles times, July 5, 2003).
Guy M. Wong states that the different treatment received by Katrina Leung is shocking. Writes Wong, first, we all know how she has been jailed for more than 3 months before bail was set and her bail was multiple times higher than her handler's. Leung has to wear a GPS monitoring device at all times while her handler does not. Even though everything she was alleged to have passed on to China came from her handler, Leung was charged with more serious crimes. Why did her handler show her all those documents if he did not intend for her to pass them on to China? What else does he think she would do with them? Some due process and equal treatment under the law. A British double agent nickname "Stakeknife" is being protected by the British government after his cover was blown, even though he had allegedly committed heinous crimes, suspected of up to 40 cold blood murders. What a contrast between two alleged double agents!