HARTFORD, Conn. — An Iranian-American engineer who tried to send sensitive U.S. military documents to Iran received a sentence of more than eight years in prison from a federal court judge Friday, after prosecutors called for him to spend 10 years behind bars.
Mozaffar Khazaee, 61 and a former employee of U.S. defense contractors such as Pratt & Whitney, pleaded guilty in February to violating the Arms Export Control Act after he offered sensitive information to schools and officials in Iran while attempting to gain employment there, according to the FBI. The former resident of Manchester, a Hartford suburb, was sentenced to serve 97 months and pay a $50,000 fine by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant.
BOSTON – Staples founder Tom Stemberg died Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66 years old and lived in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline.
He had reportedly been diagnosed with cancer in 2013.
