Surveillance & Privacy

The Chinese Buy Wright USA

Carrie Cordero
Thursday, June 30, 2016, 9:00 AM

Earlier this month, a number of federal employees were surprised by a letter they received in the mail: a letter from their professional liability insurance provider informing them that it, Wright USA, had been acquired by a Chinese company.

Newsweek’s Jeff Stein has an informative article on this development, available here. A quick preview, according to Stein’s reporting:

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Earlier this month, a number of federal employees were surprised by a letter they received in the mail: a letter from their professional liability insurance provider informing them that it, Wright USA, had been acquired by a Chinese company.

Newsweek’s Jeff Stein has an informative article on this development, available here. A quick preview, according to Stein’s reporting:

The company, Wright USA, was quietly acquired late last year by Fosun Group, a Shanghai-based conglomerate led by Guo Guangchang, a billionaire known as “China’s Warren Buffett” who has high-level Communist Party connections.

This affects many current and former federal employees, including many in the intelligence and law enforcement communities, who no doubt felt the sale added insult to injury after the OPM breach. According to the report, it sounds as if the deal is sealed.


Carrie Cordero is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, where she previously served as Director of National Security Studies. She spent the first part of her career in public service, including as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Attorney Advisor at the Department of Justice, where she practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and Special Assistant United States Attorney.

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