Former CIA officer Jerry Lee sentenced to 19 years in prison. Prosecutors say he conspired to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to China.
Jerry Lee, a former CIA officer who resigned from the agency and then came back, was sentenced to 19 years in prison on Friday.
During the sentencing hearing, the prosecution said Lee had a notebook with"eight clandestine human sources," and names of people he handled personally as a case agent in the CIA. The defense claimed that the government"would know" if those agents were harmed. They said that simply having names of people in a notebook doesn’t denote intent.
The defense also contended that there was no proof all of the money was given to Lee by the Chinese, and instead said he had other businesses. When confronted with the evidence in one interview with the FBI about the fact that the consulting company he set up could be a front he responded,"I hear you, but I'm not going to say anything."Judge T.S. Ellis, who also presided over former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort's trial, quipped back that the service is erased by"betraying your government."
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