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Ex-Los Alamos scientist to be sentenced in nuke spy sting

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela through dealings with an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of the socialist South American country. Pedro Mascheroni, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, faces up to 5½ years in prison and 10 years of supervised release when is sentenced by a federal judge in Albuquerque on Wednesday. According to a 22-count indictment, Mascheroni told the undercover agent that he could help Venezuela develop a nuclear bomb within 10 years and that the South American country would use a secret, underground nuclear reactor to produce and enrich plutonium as well as an open, aboveground reactor to produce nuclear energy.

 

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