Ex-contractor pleads guilty to sending fighter engine data to Iran

A former Iranian-born contractor for Pratt & Whitney has pleaded guilty to sending sensitive fighter engine data to Iran.

Sixty-year-old engineer Mozaffar Khazaee pleaded guilty to a federal judge in Hartford, Connecticut on Feb. 25.

Authorities say the transfer of data started way back in 2009.

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