ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who pleaded guilty to trying to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon is set to be sentenced.
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni is scheduled to appear before a U.S. district judge in Albuquerque on Wednesday.
Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela through dealings with an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of the Venezuelan government.
The wife, a former lab contractor, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring with her husband to sell nuclear secrets.
Pedro Mascheroni faces up to 5 1/2 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina.
The U.S. government is not alleging Venezuela sought U.S. secrets.
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