West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
Posted on 11/11/2022 8:52:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
A civilian nuclear engineer with the U.S. Navy and his wife received lengthy prison sentences on Wednesday for attempting to sell U.S. nuclear secrets to what they believed were representatives of a foreign government.
U.S. District Judge Gina Groh sentenced Jonathan Toebbe, who had top-secret security clearance in his role as a naval engineer, to 19 years and three months in prison, while his wife Diana, a teacher, received a sentence of 21 years and 10 months.
Groh had rejected earlier plea bargains that called for leniency because of the “great danger” that she believed the couple posed to national security. The judge also called the Toebbes “confessed traitors” who committed “horrible acts against this nation.”
Throughout 2021, Jonathan Toebbe provided FBI agents posing as representatives of a foreign nation (which the court did not mention) with information, and his wife acted as a lookout while her husband placed SD cards loaded with sensitive nuclear secrets in “dead drop” locations.
The case reads like an intricately plotted spy novel. The Toebbes would travel hundreds of miles to drop information, exchange encrypted text messages with their “foreign contacts,” and accept payment for the secrets in cryptocurrency.
“The restricted data included ‘some of the most secure and sensitive information about our nuclear-powered fleet,’ according to the commander of U.S. submarine forces, Vice Adm. William J. Houston,” reports the Washington Post.
The Daily Mail reports that Jonathan Toebbe had divided the information he possessed into 51 packets and requested $100,000 for each of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I was waiting for the article to tell us WHICH foreign entity the couple was trying to sell the info they stole to, but it was never reported in this article.
Recycle...use the same rope for both of them.
Is Diane even a woman?
Submarine Spy Couple Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Brazil
The Rosenbergs were executed for this................
Daily Mail implied Brazil. I always figured it was China.
years ago traitors were considered the lowest of the low like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg- now the left revere them-
United States
Further information: Category: People convicted of treason against the United States
Philip Vigil and John Mitchell, convicted of treason and sentenced to hanging; pardoned by George Washington; see Whiskey Rebellion.
John Fries, the leader of Fries’ Rebellion, was convicted of treason in 1800 along with two accomplices, and pardoned that same year by John Adams.
In a case famous at the time, Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason, and then burned in effigy, in 1807. He voluntarily exiled himself to the United Kingdom for 5 years.
Governor Thomas Dorr 1844, convicted of treason against the state of Rhode Island; see Dorr Rebellion; released in 1845; civil rights restored in 1851; verdict annulled in 1854.
The abolitionist John Brown, the first person executed for treason in the country’s history, convicted in 1859 of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and fomenting a slave insurrection for his part in the Harpers Ferry raid.
Aaron Dwight Stevens took part in John Brown’s raid and was executed in 1860 for treason against Virginia.
William Bruce Mumford, convicted of treason and hanged in 1862 for tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War.
Walter Allen was convicted of treason on September 16, 1922 for taking part in the 1921 Miner’s March against the coal companies and the U.S. Army at Blair Mountain, West Virginia. He was sentenced to 10 years and fined. During his appeal to the Supreme Court, he disappeared while out on bail. United Mineworkers of America leader William Blizzard was acquitted of the charge of treason by the jury on May 25, 1922.[13]
Max Stephan, a German-born Detroit tavernkeeper, was convicted of treason on July 2, 1942, after the jury deliberated for only one hour and 23 minutes. In April 1942, Stephan harbored and fed a Luftwaffe pilot at his tavern who escaped from a Canadian POW camp.[14] On August 6, Judge Arthur J. Tuttle sentenced Stephan to death by hanging.[15] He was the first man convicted and sentenced to death on a federal treason charge since the Civil War. His sentence was later commuted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in prison.[16]
Hans Max Haupt, Walter Otto Froehling and Otto Richard Wergin were convicted of treason and sentenced to death, and Erna Emma Haupt, Lucille Froehling and Kate Martha Wergin were convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison on November 24, 1942, in a joint indictment.[17] All six individuals were charged with treason for giving aid and comfort to the executed German saboteur Herbert Hans Haupt. On appeal, these judgments were reversed and remanded to be retried.[18] Hans Max Haupt was convicted again on June 9, 1944.[19] He was sentenced to life in prison. He appealed again, but the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this judgement.[20] Walter Otto Froehling and Otto Richard Wergin were sentenced to 5 years in prison on July 22, 1944 as accessories to treason.[21] Hans Max Haupt eventually appealed the case up to the Supreme Court, which sustained the verdict against him.[22]
Martin James Monti, United States Army Air Forces pilot, convicted of treason for defecting to the Waffen-SS in 1944. He was paroled in 1960.
Max Otto Koischwitz, charged with treason for defecting to Nazi Germany during World War II in 1943, died of tuberculosis in 1944.
Edward Leo Delaney, charged with treason for defecting to Nazi Germany during World War II in 1943, charges were dropped in 1947.
Jane Anderson, American journalist indicted on charges of treason in 1943, defected to Nazi Germany in World War II, charges were dropped in 1947.
Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach, indicted for defecting to Germany during World War II as a broadcaster in 1943, died in Soviet custody
Douglas Chandler, worker for National Geographic, convicted of treason in 1947 for defecting to Germany during World War II, sentence commuted by President John F. Kennedy.[23]
Robert Henry Best, convicted of treason on April 16, 1948, and served a life sentence.
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, who is frequently identified by the name “Tokyo Rose”, convicted 1949. Subsequently pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
Mildred Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally”, convicted of treason on March 8, 1949; served 12 years of a 10- to 30-year prison sentence.
Herbert John Burgman, convicted of treason in 1949 during WWII for spreading Nazi propaganda; sentenced to 6–20 years in prison.
Tomoya Kawakita, sentenced to death for treason in 1952, but eventually released by President John F. Kennedy to be deported to Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_convicted_of_treason
Does Israel have submarines? Asking for a friend, lol.
It’s not clear why she got more time than he did.
It’s not clear that the secrets were not subsequently sold.
Such insanity
SPJNK!
21 years 10 months and 19 years 3 months in Federal Prison is no joke. Doubt they’ll get sent to a Club Fed facility with them planning to flee the country in the first place. No parole and maybe 2 years reduction in sentence if they are on best behavior the entire time.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Later, losers.
Couples as this are not unusual as i see it. It always goes back to the money regardless of what excuses they give. Certainly given what they were offered for the information attests to their hope of ‘taking the bag and then run with it”.....they failed.
They should have received the same sentence as the Rosenbergs.
I read somewhere that it was France.
But, according to the Times, it was Brazil.
The FBI recovered a blue memory card wrapped in plastic and placed between two slices of bread on a half of a peanut butter sandwich, court documents say.
The Sun article adds this....
The records on the memory card included design elements and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarine reactors.
The Justice Department describes those submarines as “cruise missile fast-attack submarines, which incorporate the latest in stealth, intelligence gathering, and weapons systems technology.”
The memory card also included a typed message that said, in part: “I hope your experts are very happy with the sample provided and I understand the importance of a small exchange to grow our trust.”
From the excerpt posted above:
Throughout 2021, Jonathan Toebbe provided FBI agents posing as representatives of a foreign nation [...]
I don't think that the FBI agents then actually sold the info!
Regards,
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