Good work by the FBI - from Hampton Roads, Virginia station WTKR:
Civilian Navy engineer charged for attempting to steal, pass schematics of USS Gerald R. Ford to Egypt
A 35-year-old Navy engineer from Yorktown was arrested Friday on charges of attempting to steal schematics of the Navy’s newest nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and pass the schematics to whom he believed was an Egyptian government official, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mostafa Ahmed Awwad is charged with two counts of attempted exportation of defense articles and technical data, and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on each count if convicted.
According to an FBI affidavit submitted to the court in support of search warrants, Awwad began working for the Department of Navy in February 2014 as a civilian general engineer in the Nuclear Engineering and Planning Department at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
Based on joint investigation, an FBI undercover agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer speaking in Arabic was able to contact Awwad and arrange for a variety of classified Navy information to be stolen over the course of several months.
More at the site - I hope the bastard rots in jail for a long long time.
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