FBI and Treasury Busted a Sanctions Reviewer — $2.6B China Front, 340 Alerts Buried

A federal contractor was paid to clear the way — and for three years, 340 compliance alerts vanished into a low-priority queue while restricted aerospace components flowed to a Chinese procurement network worth an estimated $2.6 billion. The breach didn't surface from an algorithm or an audit. It surfaced from a three-line note written by a junior analyst who noticed a timestamp that couldn't exist. This is the story of Operation DRY HARBOR — how fourteen months of joint FBI–Treasury surveillance turned one impossible number into a 19-count federal indictment. Dramatized reconstruction based on real federal investigative methods; names, codenames and case details are composites. #FBI #Counterintelligence #Espionage #TrueCrime #Investigation #NationalSecurity #Federal #Documentary 0:00 The $2.6 Billion Valve 0:31 One Reviewer, One Number 1:10 How the Investigation Began 2:09 The Impossible Timestamp 3:10 Statistical Pattern Emerges 4:03 Operation Dry Harbor Opens 5:09 Building the Initial Picture 6:09 Following the Financial Thread 7:40 Scale of the Scheme 10:05 Wiretap and the Cutout 13:32 The Systemic Blind Spot 16:35 Decision to Execute 18:10 The Arrests Unfold 21:17 Charges and Aftermath