A Navy engineer and his wife who both pleaded guilty to a plot to try to sell sensitive secrets about the Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines to a foreign country have been handed lengthy prison terms.
Citing the “great danger” that a Navy engineer and his wife posed to U.S. security, U.S. District Judge Gina Groh, sentenced Jonathan Toebbe to more than 19 years and his wife, Diana Toebbe, to nearly 22 years. The sentences were handed down on Jonathan Toebbe’s 44th birthday.
Groh said their tale “reads like a crime novel or a movie script” and that Jonathan Toebbe’s “actions and greedy self-serving intentions placed military service members at sea and every citizen of this country in a vulnerable position and at risk of harm from adversaries.
“I believed that my family was in dire threat, that democracy itself was under collapse,” he said. That belief overwhelmed him, he said, and led him to believe he had to take “precipitous action to try to save them from grave harm.”
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