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Los Alamos worker sentenced for trying to pass U.S. nuclear secrets to Venezuela

By Kelly Cohen

Published August 23, 2014 10:00am ET

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Los Alamos worker sentenced for trying to pass U.S. nuclear secrets to Venezuela — Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Majorie Roxby Mascheroni, were sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to violate the Atomic Energy Act by "communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person believed to be a Venezuelan government official, and making false statements to the FBI," according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (AP Photos) | Susan Montoya Bryan

Why would the Venezuelan government want information about U.S. nuclear technology?

Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, 71, and her husband, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 79, may know the answer to that question.

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