State Department employee to face charges in FBI probe: officials

    Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. State Department employee is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Wednesday to face charges in a FBI counterintelligence investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

    The employee, Candace Claiborne, works in the State Department office that handles Caucasus Affairs, government records showed.

    One official said the charges are expected to include lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


    (Reporting by Mark Hosenball, writing by Julia Edwards Ainsley; editing by Grant McCool)