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Former Air Force Contractor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Taking 2,500 Pages of Classified Information
justice.gov ^ | February 25, 2021 | Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs

Posted on 02/26/2021 2:59:35 PM PST by ransomnote

WASHINGTON – A former contractor with the U.S. Air Force pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio today to illegally taking approximately 2,500 pages of classified documents. 

Izaak Vincent Kemp, 35, of Fairborn, was charged on Jan. 25, 2021, by a Bill of Information.

According to court documents, Kemp was employed as a contractor at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) from July 2016 to May 2019, and later as a contractor at the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). While working at AFRL and NASIC – both located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn – Kemp had Top Secret security clearance.

Despite having training on various occasions on how to safeguard classified material, Kemp took 112 classified documents and retained them at his home.

Law enforcement discovered the documents which contained approximately 2,500 pages of material classified at the Secret level, while executing a search warrant at Kemp’s home on May 25, 2019.

Unauthorized removal or retention of classified documents is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison. Congress sets the maximum statutory sentence. Sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the Court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.

John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the Department of Justice; David M. DeVillers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Chris Hoffman, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Cincinnati Division; the Air Force Office of Special Investigations; and Fairborn Police Chief Terry Bennington announced the plea entered into today before U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice. The Department of Justice’s Deputy Criminal Chief Dominick S. Gerace and Trial Attorney Matthew J. McKenzie of the National Security Division are representing the United States in this case.

Topic(s): 
National Security
Press Release Number: 
21-179


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: classifiedinfo

1 posted on 02/26/2021 2:59:35 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

And H->! is still running around free?


2 posted on 02/26/2021 3:03:56 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ransomnote

What was Sandy Berger’s punishment?


3 posted on 02/26/2021 3:09:15 PM PST by kanawa ((Twitter quitter))
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To: kanawa

Boom!!


4 posted on 02/26/2021 3:17:22 PM PST by hattend
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To: Paladin2
Yep.   Those of us who protected classified information...

In the Crypto Vault we had a large coffee can with holes opened around the bottom edge.   We had to sign the tracking documents every shift for each item we destroyed along with a witness, then burned them in that can.   It was fun to see the smoke disappear into the huge air return of the cooling system keeping the temperature just above freezing in the vault.

From that time until now, my signature and initials look as horrible as a doctor's.   When you sign or initial hundreds of times a night or day it gets tedious.

We were all always aware that the next guy we might see in public could be an undercover OSI agent or a foreign spy trying to compromise our butts.

Hillary is a piece of filth!

5 posted on 02/26/2021 3:30:50 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: higgmeister

“Hillary is a piece of filth! “

And the DOJ.

It’s actually incredible.


6 posted on 02/26/2021 3:35:57 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

You read my mind!


7 posted on 02/26/2021 3:43:49 PM PST by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: ransomnote

“I am Hillary Clinton”

/case dismissed


8 posted on 02/26/2021 4:16:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ransomnote

Is he related to Sandy (stuff it in my socks and underwear) Burglar?


9 posted on 02/26/2021 4:25:54 PM PST by MCSETots
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To: higgmeister
Hillary is a piece of filth!

Get elected to Congress or a cabinet position, you can put it on the world wide web or sell it.

10 posted on 02/27/2021 4:35:18 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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