Former DOD employee gets probation for lying
On Tuesday, Judge Ellen Bree Burns sentenced Beatrice C. Ruiz of Norwalk to two years probation and a $250 fine. Ruiz pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court last year to one count of making a false statement.
Ruiz was a Department of Defense engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford. The 56-year-old denied having any contact with a foreign government on an application for a top secret security clearance.
But authorities say Ruiz had a social and business relationship for nearly a decade with an official of the Colombian consulate in New York.
Ruiz and the government agreed that her social and business activities were intended for her personal benefit. The evidence does not suggest that she misused classified information or harmed the security interests of the United States.
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