NEW YORK, March 11 (UPI) -- A Maryland woman is due to be arraigned in New York Monday after being been charged with acting as a paid agent for the Iraqi intelligence service.
The woman was identified Thursday by the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan as Susan Lindauer of Tacoma Park, Md. She is reportedly a cousin of White House chief of staff Andrew Card.
As she was led from a Baltimore courtroom, Lindauer shouted, "I'm innocent," to reporters.
Lindauer is a former journalist and Democratic congressional staffer. She gave a disposition in the investigation of the 1988 airline terror bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, naming Syria, not Libya, as the culprit. Libya has admitted responsibility for the Lockerbie attack.
Lindauer was arrested at her home Thursday morning.
She was named on a superseding indictment in New York that already charges the grown children of a former Iraqi diplomat with acting as agents of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
Lindauer is alleged to have accepted $10,000 from the IIS.
