Maryland couple pleads guilty to selling nuclear-related secrets

abcnews.go.com ^ | September 27, 2022, 10:03 AM | Aaron Katersky and Luke Barr

[BenLurkin]

Jonathan and Diana Toebbe pleaded guilty for a second time on Tuesday to federal charges that they tried to sell secrets about U.S. submarine nuclear propulsion systems to a foreign country.

The couple originally pleaded guilty in February but a judge threw out the plea agreements last month after deciding the sentences called for were too low.

At the time of his plea, Toebbe conceded he sent a package to a foreign government, listing a return address in Pittsburgh that contained a sample of restricted data and instructions for establishing relationship to buy additional restricted data.

Toebbe said he began corresponding with someone he thought was a representative of the foreign government who was really an undercover FBI agent.

[TreasonObserver]

Screw that. Take them down to test depth (something they probably shared with our enemies) in shark infested waters and shoot them out of a torpedo tube.

[immadashell]

Crank up old Sparky!

[ronniesgal]

oh i’ll bet he’s sorry he let his shrew wife get them in trouble like this.

[SmokingJoe]

They'll be treated batter than the J6 prisoners

Yup.

[Vision]

Kill them.

[GingisK]

Shame on them! Don’t they know that sort of activity is reserved for Biden’s family?

[Jacquerie]

It often helps to read beyond the headline.

[SmokingJoe]

Reading beyond the headlines doesn't change my point that countries that are powerful enough to develop nuclear weapons and want nuclear weapons, have already developed them.
This not the 1940’s.

[dfwgator]

[shotgun]

[dfwgator]

They never looked better.