A U.S. judge has refused to ease parole conditions for freed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard so he can begin working as a financial analyst, the Times of Israel website reports today (August 12, 2016).
The U.S. Parole Commission did not abuse its discretion when it required the 61-year-old former U.S. Navy intelligence research specialist to submit to a curfew and monitoring of work computers and his whereabouts, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said yesterday.
Pollard's lawyers had argued that the restrictions blocked him from accepting an offer to work as a financial analyst after his release from prison last November.
In June 1986, Pollard pleaded guilty to conspiring to deliver national defense information to a foreign government, selling U.S. secrets to Israel. He served 30 years of a life-long prison sentence.
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