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US supreme court overturns conviction of Twitter employee accused of spying

Unanimous ruling says US secured conviction of Ahmad Abouammo for spying for Saudi Arabia in the wrong state

The US supreme court overturned on Thursday an obstruction conviction of a former Twitter employee accused of spying for Saudi Arabia, saying he was tried in the wrong state for knowingly falsifying a document to impede an FBI investigation.

The justices unanimously ruled that the US justice department wrongly in 2022 secured Ahmad Abouammo’s conviction in California from a jury in San Francisco, when his only interactions with FBI agents had been at his home in Seattle in Washington state.

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Jun 11, 2026 US supreme court California US crime

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