http://www.examiner.com/a-550570~NSA_employee_charged_with_giving_wife__340_000_contract.html The Associated Press Feb 6, 2007 BALTIMORE - An NSA employee is accused of giving his wife's company a $340,000 contract for work on a computer security exercise he directed, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Tuesday. Wayne J. Schepens, 37, of Severna Park is scheduled for an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court on the conflict of interest charge. Schepens faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, said Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office. Schepens co-created the Cyber Defense Exercise in 2000 for the National Security Agency, the secretive Department of Defense spy agency. The annual competition involved teams from participating military academies who tried to protect their computer networks from attacks by teams of hackers, generally NSA employees and military reservists, according to court documents. In March 2004, Schepens' wife, who was not identified by prosecutors, became the chief executive officer and majority shareholder of CDXperts, a corporation based in Schepens' home. In September, 2004, CDXperts received the $340,000 contract, according to the documents provided by prosecutors. Schepens was removed from the Cyber Defense Exercise in November 2005, prosecutors said. ______________________________________ Subscribe to the InfoSec News RSS Feed http://www.infosecnews.org/isn.rss
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