Report from military.com
LOS ANGELES — A California man charged with allegedly attempting to sell sensitive information used in military and commercial satellites to the Russians was ordered jailed without bail Friday.
Gregory Allen Justice of Culver City was arrested Thursday by FBI agents.
Authorities say the 49-year-old engineer, who worked for a Los Angeles defense contractor, provided proprietary software technology and other information to an FBI agent he thought was a Russian spy.
He was charged with economic espionage and violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act.
“Mr. Justice allegedly placed his own interests of greed over our national security by providing information on sensitive U.S. technologies to a person whom he believed was a foreign agent,” Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin said in a statement Friday. “In the wrong hands, this information could be used to harm the United States and its allies.”
An attorney for Justice could not immediately be located, and his phone number has been disconnected.
According to court documents, Justice was paid between $500 and $1,000 during each of several meetings he had with the undercover agent earlier this year.