Individual Pleads Guilty To Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files

摘要

On January 27, 2009, Gerald R. Lueders, 65, of Woodbridge, VA, pleaded guilty before US Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in US District Court for the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal information charging him with unauthorized computer access to a US Department of State computer in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(B). According to court documents, from June 1974 through September 2001, Lueders served as a Foreign Service Officer at the State Department. From fall 2005 to February 2008, he worked as a watch officer within the Office of Consular Affairs. Lueders has also been a retired annuitant since October 2001, serving as a recruitment coordinator in various State Department bureaus.