A former senior manager for the Tennessee Valley Authority who was recruited by an operative for the Chinese government seeking to buy American nuclear information received a rare probationary sentence.
Chief U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan on Thursday turned aside a bid by federal prosecutors to have nuclear scientist Ching Ning Guey, 63, imprisoned and instead sentenced the former TVA executive to a three-year probationary term.
Guey was among a half dozen nuclear engineering experts working in the American nuclear power production industry who were recruited by operative Szuhsiung “Allen” Ho, 67, as part of what Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Atchley Jr. has called a plot by China to garner nuclear technological know-how the country was not allowed to access.
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