Contract employee charged with stealing classified uranium data from lab

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By Lara Jakes Jordan
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – A contract employee at a nuclear material cleanup site in Tennessee pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he stole classified information about enriching uranium to sell to foreign governments.

Roy Lynn Oakley, 65, of Roane County, Tenn., was arrested in January after he allegedly tried to sell the sensitive material to undercover FBI agents.

None of the data made it out of the country or was transmitted to criminal or terrorist groups, the Justice Department said in a statement issued in Washington.

Oakley entered the plea before a federal judge in Knoxville, Tenn. He was charged with two counts of possessing hardware used in uranium enrichment. He could face a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

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[hollowdweller]

1. When will we learn that contracting out does not save money in the long run!

[aquart]

2. Another privatization failure.

Add it to the list.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Bush should pardon this free-enterprise loving individual

After all, no one died and no secrets were released. Scooter did a heck of a lot more, and this guy's business cred is even better - he's a free market entrepreneur, after all....

:sarcasm: