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Associated PressBy Lara Jakes Jordan
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – A contract employee at a nuclear material cleanup site in Tennessee pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he stole classified information about enriching uranium to sell to foreign governments.
Roy Lynn Oakley, 65, of Roane County, Tenn., was arrested in January after he allegedly tried to sell the sensitive material to undercover FBI agents.
None of the data made it out of the country or was transmitted to criminal or terrorist groups, the Justice Department said in a statement issued in Washington.
Oakley entered the plea before a federal judge in Knoxville, Tenn. He was charged with two counts of possessing hardware used in uranium enrichment. He could face a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
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