Iranian-born engineer gets 8 years in arms trading case

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 w

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 w…