US government IT worker pleads guilty to passing Top Secret files to Ethiopia
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Abraham Teklu Lemma, a 53-year-old Maryland resident and naturalised US citizen, has pleaded guilty to espionage offences. Between 2019 and 2023 he worked for the National Reconnaissance Office, State Department and Justice Department, where he copied at least 133 intelligence reports without need-to-know authorisation. Prosecutors say he passed material to Ethiopian officials over an encrypted messaging app, and he agreed to a sentence of 120 to 262 months.
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