Former FED employee pleads guilty to Humphreys leak

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Former FED employee pleads guilty to Humphreys leak
By Ashley Rowland , Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, July 30, 2008

SEOUL — A former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civilian employee faces up to five years in prison for leaking "sensitive" information in August 2006 to a multinational company bidding to get a contract to expand Camp Humphreys, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

David Honbo, 60, has pleaded guilty to giving the information, including confidential government evaluations, to a consultant who worked for a potential bidder for the contract.

He worked on a team responsible for awarding the multi-billion dollar contract for the massive expansion at Humphreys, a Department of Justice release said.

The release said Honbo, who now lives in Las Vegas, initially lied to Criminal Investigation Division agents about leaking the information. It did not name the company he gave the information to.

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Honbo will be sentenced Oct. 30 in U.S. District Court in Washington and could be fined as much as $250,000 in addition to jail time. Humphreys, a once-sleepy helicopter base, is scheduled to triple in size by 2012, when all military bases in and north of Seoul are scheduled to close. Approximately 17,000 troops, 4,700 U.S. civilian employees and 13,000 family members will live there.


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