The Maryland couple whose shoddy spycraft got them arrested for trying to sell nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign power again pleaded guilty for their alleged crimes on Tuesday, deciding not to face a jury after a federal judge threw out their first plea deal.
The Washington Post reported that both Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Diana Toebbe, again pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to sell data about U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines for $5 million in crypto currency. Jonathan Toebbe once worked for the Navy.
The New York Times reported in March that the country Jonathan Toebbe solicited was Brazil.
As of Wednesday morning, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Martinsburg had only published Diana Toebbe’s new plea deal in its docket.
The new plea agreements, according to the Post, would land Jonathan Toebee and Diana Toebee longer prison terms than the old pleas rejected in August by Judge Gina Groh, a Barack Obama appointee. Groh said then that the three-year sentence worked out between Jonathan Toebee and the Department of Justice was too lenient.
