Teacher Wife of US Navy engineer Now ADMITS she tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to friendly foreign power days after husband pleaded guilty and agreed to snitch on her: Won't serve more than 36 months in prison
The teacher wife of a US Navy nuclear engineer pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a plot to sell submarine secrets to a foreign country, just four days after her husband admitted his crimes and told prosecutors he'd help them nail her.
Former private school teacher Diana Toebbe, 46, admitted taking part in her husband Jonathan Toebbe's plan to sell information on US nuclear submarines to an unidentified foreign buyer, suspected to be in France. The plea deal she struck means she will serve a maximum of 36 months in prison, far shorter than the 12-and-a-half to 17 years her spouse faces, and the maximum life term the pair could have been punished with.
According to the charges, she acted as a lookout while her husband delivered highly classified information on nuclear submarine technology to a buyer they believed to be a friendly foreign nation in a series of surreptitious 'dead drops' in the region around their Annapolis, Maryland home.
The country hasn't been named, but is believed to be France, and contacted federal officials after the Toebbes first got in touch, with an FBI investigator subsequently posing as an agent of that country to entrap the pair.
The leaked secrets contained 'militarily sensitive design elements, operating parameters and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarine reactors,' according to a federal court affidavit
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