Argentine-born scientist to prison for providing US nuclear information to alleged Venezuelan agents

Friday, January 30th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

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A U.S. judge sentenced an Argentine-born scientist, now a nationalized American, to five years in prison for providing secret nuclear information to an FBI agent posing as a Venezuelan government official, the Justice Department announced. Read full article

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Briton
Cannot his American citizenship be revoked and kick him out for Treason.
Jan 30th, 2015 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Not once is is a full citizen....no. Man....the RG's are ALL over the US news lately........they are certainly making themselves known.........like Iran.
Jan 30th, 2015 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Usurping Pirate
The only surprise is the leniency of the sentence .
Jan 30th, 2015 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
High Five to the FBI !!
Jan 30th, 2015 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
He should have got at least 30 years.
Jan 30th, 2015 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
His sentence would really depend on what he actually gave them. If he truly did give readily available data, then he got a pretty good sentence. If it was anything classified to any degree of restriction, there are sentencing guidelines.
Jan 30th, 2015 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Falkland Islands
typical argie I say.
Jan 31st, 2015 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
Giving help to Venezuela to build nuclear weapons?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

They can't provide their citizens with bog rolls, sanitary pads, cooking oil and gound maize and they want nuclear bombs.

If EVER their is a good enough reason to execute the entire government this is it.
Jan 31st, 2015 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
I don't see a problem. Most argies should be in prison. Based on this site, I haven't been able to identify as many as 5 argentines that should be outside a prison.
Jan 31st, 2015 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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