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Ex-FBI Agent to Get Probation for Leak

An AP newswire article, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

A former FBI agent who disclosed confidential information in connection with a Chinese spying investigation will be sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, a judge said Monday.

U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner said he would accept a plea bargain for Denise K. Woo, 47, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count in June as part of the agreement. Sentencing was set for Oct. 23.

In the plea agreement, Woo acknowledged she had passed on information in 1999 about an informant's identity to a man only identified as J.W. Her lawyers argued that she acted out of concern that the man, a family friend, was being wrongly investigated.

posted by Fergie @ 8/28/2006 10:17:00 PM