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Title: Woman Pleads Guilty to Lying About Astronaut Accessing Bank Account
From International Space Station

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/15/05472...

It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space - back in 2019. But
by 2020 it had led to charges of lying to federal authorities. And now a
former Air Force intelligence officer "has pleaded guilty to lying to a
federal agent," reports CNBC, "by falsely claiming that her estranged
astronaut wife illegally accessed her bank account while aboard the
International Space Station for six months, prosecutors in Houston, Texas,
said Friday." The guilty plea by Summer Worden, 50, on Thursday comes more
than five years after she was indicted in the space case for lying about
actions by her wife, Anne McClain, a U.S. Army colonel, West Point graduate
and Iraq war combat veteran, while they were in the midst of a divorce. The
claim came at a time when Worden said that the couple was engaged in a
custody battle over what Worden's then-6-year-old son, who had been conceived
through in vitro fertilizationand carried by a surrogate... McClain was
aboard the Space Station from December 2018 through June 2019. She recently
commanded the SpaceX Crew-10 crew mission to the Space Station from March
this year until August. Worden, who remains free on bond, is scheduled to be
sentenced on February 12. She faces a maximum possible sentence of up to five
years in prison.

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