Ethiopian-American pleads guilty to spying on US govt for Ethiopia, risks 21 years in prison

An Ethiopian-American former US government contractor, Abraham Teklu Lemma, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to spy for Ethiopia, in a case that could see him jailed for up to 21 years .
The 53-year-old Lemma, of Maryland, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, November 3, to conspiracy to transmit national defence information to a foreign government, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
Lemma, a former Information Technology contractor at the National Reconnaissance Office, the US Department of State and the US Department of Justice, held a Top Secret US security clearance and has agreed to a sentence of between 120 and 262 months in prison, if accepted by the court.
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