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Law Practice

Dec. 12, 2008

Sentence Request Didn't Fit Crime, Judge Says

Moments before a judge sentenced a former Boeing scientist this week for taking classified documents to Israel, he apologized and reflected on the past two years of his life.

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Moments before a judge sentenced a former Boeing scientist this week for taking classified documents to Israel, he apologized and reflected on the past two years of his life.

"The risk that I took and the loss that I took was very large," Abraham Lesnik, 62, told U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper. " It's still hard for me to understand why I made such a terrible choice."

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