Archives official sentenced for stealing historical recordings

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A former high-ranking National Archives and Records Administation official was sentenced Thursday to a year-and-a-half in prison for a decade-long scheme to steal Archives materials and sell them on eBay.

Leslie Charles Waffen was sentenced in federal court in Greenbelt after pleading guilty in October to stealing sound recordings from the Archives between 2001 and 2010.

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