NEW YORK — Diana Toebbe, 46, concocted a false narrative about a plot to sell secrets involving submarine nuclear propulsion systems to a foreign country in an attempt to pin the crime solely on her husband and avoid prison time for herself, a federal judge said Wednesday before sentencing Toebbe to 21 years in prison.
Her attorney cast her husband, 43-year-old Jonathan Toebbe, a former nuclear engineer for the US Navy, as the “brainchild” of a “cover plan” to spare his wife in order to have a parent available to care for the couple’s children but the judge said Diana Toebbe deserved an enhanced sentence.
Ten years were added to Diana Toebbe's expected sentence because she tried to smuggle two letters to her husband while in custody by placing them in her laundry and having her roommate intercept them. "You put me in great danger. Even with the weakness of the government's case, I may still be convicted on circumstantial evidence. I could go to jail for life for something I didn't do. My lawyers don't think they will give you a plea deal that doesn't involve me pleading guilty," the letter said.The couple pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to communicate restricted data and secrets to a foreign country, which ABC News has previously identified as Brazil.
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