A former Air Force employee who tried to sell classified information about a military satellite network to China has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.
Brian Scott Orr of Marina del Rey was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles. He also was fined $10,000.
Prosecutors say Orr was a former civilian employee with the Air Force Research Laboratory in New York who worked on a computer network used to control military satellites.
Prosecutors say he lost his top secret clearance because of poor work performance and odd behavior, resigned in 2011 but kept some restricted training materials. Prosecutors say he sold the information last year for $5,000 to an FBI agent he believed was a Chinese spy.
Orr pleaded guilty in March to keeping stolen government property.
(AP)
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“has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.”
Aha. And Rubashkin gets 27 years?! Great justice system we have here.
Equal justice? Try telling that to Jonathon Pollard.
1 & 2: You have hair trigger knees.
Orr attempted to commit espionage. He did no harm to the US since he was caught in a sting. Pollard actually committed espionage, and did grave harm to the US. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced appropriately.
Rubashkin, while he had less severe charges, was accused of many, was tried and found guilty of most of them, and was sentenced appropriately (i.e., if you are found guilty of 100 charges, each with 1 year sentences your sentence is 100 years).
Stop trying to compare Pollard and Rubashkin to every single conviction and sentence in the US. It is getting boring, and serves no purpose.
#3 that’s Moizi Shem Ra; neither did Pollard cause any harm to the US, nor did Rubashkin committ a hundred offenses.
Comparing the 2 to other convictions may be boring to you but not to Mr Pollard and Mr Rubashkin!
Shazam:
Since you’re such an expert on Mr. Rubashkin’s “crimes”, why don’t you educate us to his 100 convictions.
While just about everyone in Law, from the extreme left (Ramsey Clark) to the far right (Bob Barr), have publicly stated that Mr. Rubashkin’s sentence is unjust and doesn’t fit his “crimes”. No one in the History of this once great Country, was sentenced for 27 years for the exact same “crimes”. Apparently facts are not important to you. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.