Sentenced in federal court today a former U.S. DoD analyst Gregg Bergersen get only 5 years in prison for passing secrets to a foreign power.
federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, handed down a 57-month prison term and required that he be placed on three years of supervised release after he served his sentence, the DoD said.
Bergersen, now 51, entered a guilty plea in March on charges of conspiracy to disclose national defense information to unauthorized persons. Most of this involved delivering information involving U.S. military sales with Taiwan to Chinese officials, according to court documents.
The maximum sentence for the charge was 10 years.
There was little doubt on the outcome as taped conversations between Bergersen and his accomplices also show that Bergersen know the information was classified and that, if caught, he would go to jail. "If it ever fell into the wrong hands ... then I would be fired for sure. I'd go to jail," he said.
He was arrested in February, along with Tai Shen Kuo and Yu Xin Kang, both of New Orleans.
By his own admission he had received gifts, cash payments and gambling money for Las Vegas trips.
Defense had claimed he was unaware that Kuo was passing the information along to a Chinese government official, according to court documents.
Both Kuo, a U.S. citizen born in Taiwan, and Kang, a Chinese citizen accused of acting as an intermediary between Kuo and a Chinese official, have also pleaded guilty.
federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, handed down a 57-month prison term and required that he be placed on three years of supervised release after he served his sentence, the DoD said.
Bergersen, now 51, entered a guilty plea in March on charges of conspiracy to disclose national defense information to unauthorized persons. Most of this involved delivering information involving U.S. military sales with Taiwan to Chinese officials, according to court documents.
The maximum sentence for the charge was 10 years.
There was little doubt on the outcome as taped conversations between Bergersen and his accomplices also show that Bergersen know the information was classified and that, if caught, he would go to jail. "If it ever fell into the wrong hands ... then I would be fired for sure. I'd go to jail," he said.
He was arrested in February, along with Tai Shen Kuo and Yu Xin Kang, both of New Orleans.
By his own admission he had received gifts, cash payments and gambling money for Las Vegas trips.
Defense had claimed he was unaware that Kuo was passing the information along to a Chinese government official, according to court documents.
Both Kuo, a U.S. citizen born in Taiwan, and Kang, a Chinese citizen accused of acting as an intermediary between Kuo and a Chinese official, have also pleaded guilty.
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