[doug from upland]

I'll make a guess and someone can check. I think it was a $250K fine, a loss of his security clearance for a few years, and perhaps 18 months of probation. Let's see if I'm right.

[doug from upland]

Here it is. Unbelievable. It is far less than I remembered. Get this ---

Under terms negotiated by Berger's attorneys and the Justice Department, he has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and accept a three-year suspension of his national security clearance. These terms must be accepted by a judge before they are final, but Berger's associates said yesterday he believes that closure is near on what has been an embarrassing episode during which he repeatedly misled people about what happened during two visits to the National Archives in September and October 2003.

[Republicus2001]

Doug, that really is scandalous right there...I am a professional archivist and I know the lengths he must have gone through to get that stuff out. NARA is supposed to be the gold standard for our business but obviously Berger played his authority card YET still had to hide things on his person to get the materials out. A good read about modern day scandals in US archives and special collections is The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey...