Navy Lt Cmdr pleads guilty in “sex for secrets” bust – PB/TK
Naval flight officer to serve 6 years for illegally sharing classified information – By Courtney Mabeus / June 3 2017
NORFOLK, Virginia — A naval flight officer who pleaded guilty last month to violating the federal Espionage Act will serve six years in confinement.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, 40, also will be dismissed from the Navy under the sentence issued late Friday by military judge Cmdr. Robert Monahan, who deliberated for four hours. Monahan sentenced Lin to nine years, but under a pretrial agreement he will serve six, receive credit for the more than 600 days he was held before trial and have three years suspended.
Lin’s sentencing followed a two-day hearing during which he offered the first personal details in a case that once was reported as a sex-for-secrets intrigue.
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