Posted on 07/19/2007 10:25:29 PM PDT by gpapa
A former maintenance worker at the East Tennessee Technology Park pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday to charges of attempting to sell potentially sensitive components used for uranium enrichment to the French government.
Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, of Harriman, faces a two-count indictment charging that he stole pieces of equipment from October 2006 to Jan. 26, 2007 at the Oak Ridge site, for the purpose of selling them.
More seriously, he is charged with offering the material to France “to injure the United States and secure an advantage to a foreign nation.”
He is free on $25,000 bond and his attorney, Herbert S. Moncier, said his client never intended to harm the U.S.
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