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| Los Alamos Workers Indicted on Espionage Charges |
| 2010-09-18 |
| A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist and his wife were indicted Friday on charges of providing classified nuclear weapons information to a Venezuelan government official. The pair, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 75, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, and Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, 67, a U.S. citizen was also charged with conspiring to participate in the development of an atomic weapon for Venezuela. The 22-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the District of New Mexico. After being arrested, the couple made their initial court appearance in an Albuquerque Federal courtroom. Conviction on all the charges would involve a potential sentence of life in prison. This was apparently an FBI sting operation. Venezuela? That makes it WoT-related. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |