Grant Gross reports: A former employee at the U.S. Department of State was sentenced to 12 months of probation Friday for illegally accessing more than 75 confidential passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said. William Celey, 28, of Washington, D.C., was also ordered to perform 50 hours of community service by U.S. Magistrate…
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Bored bureaucrat pleads guilty to passport snooping
A fifth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing passport application files stored in a computer database, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Kevin M. Young, 42, of Temple Mills, Md., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count…