A government contractor with the State and Justice departments who had top security clearance was charged Thursday with aiding a foreign government spy. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, a naturalized US ci…
A government contractor with the State and Justice departments who had top security clearance was charged Thursday with aiding a foreign government spy.
Lemma, who lives in Maryland, has been charged with gathering or delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government; conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government; and having unauthorized possession of national defense information and willfully retaining it.Lemma could face the death penalty if convicted.
It is further alleged that the accused spy used an encrypted messaging app to transmit the sensitive material to a foreign official associated with Ethiopia’s intelligence service, and that the two discussed the “military activities of a rebel group involved in an armed struggle against the government of the Relevant Country.”
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