Supreme Court affirms Washington venue in falsification trial

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision on Thursday, ruled that an individual charged with falsification of a document, must be tried in the district where the falsification occurred. 

The case, Abouammo v. U.S., focused on Ahmed Abouammo, an employee at Twitter's San Francisco office who provided confidential information about Saudi dissidents to a high-level Saudi official. He used information obtained through his job at Twitter to aid the Saudi official in tracking the dissidents and was paid $300,000.