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Alex Mann

Wife of former Navy nuclear engineer who pleaded guilty in federal espionage case expected to change plea

BALTIMORE — The wife of the former Navy nuclear engineer who on Monday pleaded guilty in a scheme to sell military secrets to foreign governments may be following her husband’s lead, federal court records show.

Jonathan Toebbe, 43, admitted in federal court in West Virginia he shared troves of date and documents pertaining to nuclear submarines to undercover FBI agents, who duped him into believing they were representatives of another country, in exchange for thousands of dollars worth of crypto currency.

Until Monday, Toebbe and his wife, Diana, 46, maintained she was innocent.

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