US authorities have charged a US Navy employee and his wife with allegedly selling information on nuclear-powered vessels to an undercover FBI agent they believed represented a foreign country in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Jonathan Toebbe, a nuclear engineer with the US Navy, and Diana Toebbe, a humanities teacher, were arrested on Saturday for allegedly sharing restricted military information “with the intent to injure the United States and to secure an advantage to a foreign nation,” according to a complaint filed by the FBI.
“The complaint charges a plot to transmit information relating to the design of our nuclear submarines to a foreign nation,” said Merrick Garland, the US attorney-general, in a statement on Sunday.