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In mid-April 2017, multiple online sources reported that former U.S. State Department employee Candace Claiborne (purportedly an employee of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton) was arrested on charges of treason: The indictment in question was real, although many online reports covering it were inaccurate. Claiborne was arrested on specific charges related to improperly receiving gifts in exchange for her providing information to Chinese agents — obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the F.B.I. — not treason, as noted in a Justice Department press release about the case: Claiborne wasn't an employee of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, other than in the sense that she held a mid-level (not a deep state operative) job at the State Department, which was headed by Clinton from 2009-2013 (in her position as Secretary of State) and is a part of the executive branch, which was headed by Barack Obama from 2009-2017 (in his position as President of the United States). By that standard, Claiborne would also have been an employee of Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson, as the affidavit that accompanied the criminal complaint against her noted she was still working for the State Department at the time of her arrest: Candace Claiborne pled not guilty at her 29 March 2017 court appearance, and a preliminary hearing for her case was scheduled for 18 April 2017.
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