{"id":2613441,"date":"2026-06-11T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-court-sides-with-ex-twitter-employee-who-gave-saudi-arabia-secrets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:06:54","slug":"high-court-sides-with-ex-twitter-employee-who-gave-saudi-arabia-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-court-sides-with-ex-twitter-employee-who-gave-saudi-arabia-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"High court sides with ex-Twitter employee who gave Saudi Arabia secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhigh-court-sides-with-ex-twitter-employee-who-gave-saudi-arabia-secrets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"203\">Supreme Court<\/a> issued a ruling Thursday siding with a former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/x-twitter\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11498\">Twitter<\/a> employee who sold company secrets to a high-level <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/saudi-arabia\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"590\">Saudi<\/a> official, finding prosecutors charged him in the wrong federal court for falsifying an invoice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahmad Abouammo was employed at a San Francisco office of Twitter, now X, when, in exchange for $300,000, he gave a Saudi official confidential information about Saudi dissidents posting on the social media platform. After Abouammo left the company and moved to Seattle, federal investigators interviewed him over the leak of company secrets. When Abouammo told investigators the payments he received were for consulting, rather than sharing secrets, he provided a fake invoice.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4598907\/supreme-court-tosses-biden-gas-appliance-rules\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Supreme Court tosses DC Circuit ruling on Biden\u2019s gas appliance rules<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4595153\/supreme-court-23-opinions-left-final-weeks-of-term\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Supreme Court saves 23 opinions for release in final weeks of term<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4594874\/supreme-court-upholds-fcc-ability-penalize-att-verizon\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Supreme Court upholds FCC\u2019s ability to penalize AT&#038;T and Verizon<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abouammo was charged by federal prosecutors in San Francisco federal court, rather than a Seattle federal court, for falsifying a record, with prosecutors claiming he was charged in the Northern District of California because that was where the investigation originated. Abouammo asked the federal <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/courts\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"439\">court<\/a> to toss the charge, arguing it could only be filed in a federal court in Washington state, where the alleged crime occurred. After both a federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied Abouammo\u2019s claims, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with the former X employee, holding that indictments must be brought in the district where the crime occurs, not where the investigation originates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe trial for falsifying a document must take place where the defendant falsified the document,\u201d Justice <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elena-kagan\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4303\">Elena Kagan<\/a> wrote for the unanimous high court. \u201cHere that was in Seattle\u2014meaning in venue terms, the Western District of Washington. The trial should not have occurred in the Northern District of California because no \u2018conduct constituting the offense\u2019 happened in that location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The high court\u2019s ruling also marks a win against court shopping by prosecutors, which has increasingly become a problem throughout the judiciary. 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