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NSF tech guy smacked for stealing $94K in electronics

Top computer gifts holiday 2013

Foundation exec slams Microsoft for 'meaningless' security pledge

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December 06, 2013
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NSF tech guy smacked for stealing $94K in electronics

This IT guy had an all-together different idea of how to spend government money. The Department of Justice today said James Troy Clark, 51, of Fredericksburg, Va., an IT specialist with the National Science Foundation plead guilty this week to theft of government property totaling more than $90,000. [IN THE NEWS: Bitcoin's highest highs, lowest lows]

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