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Former NSA Worker In Conflict of Interest Case Gets Probation

Via The Baltimore Sun.

A former National Security Agency employee was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to two years' probation for steering more than $770,000 in government contracts to companies in which he and his wife had a financial interest, federal prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake ordered Wayne J. Schepens, 37, of Severna Park to serve the first six months of his sentence in home detention and on electronic monitoring, the U.S. attorney's office said. The judge also fined Schepens $100,000.

Schepens, who handled contracts involving military service academies, pleaded guilty Feb. 9 to conflict of interest charges. He could have received a maximum prison sentence of five years.

Prosecutors said Schepens worked for the NSA from 1998 until he resigned July 26. They said a part of his duties at the super-secret security agency at Fort Meade included co-creating and directing a cyber defense exercise. Teams of cadets and other students competed to protect computers from teams of hackers played by NSA employees.

posted by Fergie @ 4/07/2007 01:39:00 PM