A Navy nuclear engineer with top secret security clearance sent a package of restricted data to an unidentified country in 2020 and later began selling secrets for tens of thousands in cryptocurrency to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign official
FILE PHOTO: Folder with the seal of the U.S. Department of Justice sits on a table at the U.N. in GenevaWASHINGTON - A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent who posed as an operative for a foreign country, the Justice Department said on Sunday.
Toebbe, 42, a Navy nuclear engineer with top secret security clearance, sent a package of restricted data to an unidentified country in 2020 and later began selling secrets for tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign official, the Justice Department said.
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