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U.S. agent for Cuba gets life in prison

Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist.

Walter Kendall Myers, 72 -- known to his Cuban handlers as ``Agent 202'' -- agreed to a life sentence without parole and to cooperate with the federal government in a deal with prosecutors that offered a much lighter sentence for his wife.

Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71 -- known as ``Agent 123'' and ``Agent E-634'' -- had faced as long as 20 years in prison. Under the plea deal, she now could serve between 6 and 7 ½ years. She, too, agreed to cooperate fully with investigators.

The curious case of Kendall Myers, alleged spy

Retired State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, told friends they had summer plans to take their 37-foot yacht north last weekend, up the picturesque coastline to New England.

Instead, the couple waits in a federal jail for trial, charged with 30 years of spying on the United States for the country's longtime antagonist, the Communist regime of Cuba.

And friends and colleagues are left to reconcile the gregarious, well-read couple they knew with federal charges that allege a life of duplicity -- of shadowy intrigue involving coded messages to Havana and clandestine contacts with Cuba's spy agency.

The curious case of alleged Cuban spy Kendall Myers

Retired State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, told friends they had summer plans to take their 37-foot yacht north last weekend, up the picturesque coastline to New England.

Instead, the couple waits in a federal jail for trial, charged with 30 years of spying on the United States for the country's longtime antagonist, the communist regime of Cuba.

And friends and colleagues are left to reconcile the gregarious, well-read couple they knew with federal charges that allege a life of duplicity -- of shadowy intrigue involving coded messages to Havana and clandestine contacts with Cuba's spy agency.

Former federal agent pleads guilty to obstruction of justice

A high-ranking federal agent who tapped into criminal databases to tip off a Miami money launderer that it was safe to return to Mexico pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to obstruction of justice.

Richard Padilla Cramer, the one-time resident agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara, Mexico, faces up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing Feb. 18 before U.S. District Judge Paul Huck.

Prosecutors said Cramer was asked by Mexican drug-trafficking associates of the Miami money launderer to see whether he and a partner were under investigation or facing arrest.

Court: Sentence for millennium plotter too lenient

The long legal battle of an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium has taken another turn after an appeals court threw out his sentence and removed the trial judge from the case.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday said Ahmed Ressam's 22-year prison sentence is too lenient. Border agents in Washington state arrested the Algerian national in 1999 after he entered the United States from Canada on a ferry with a car packed with explosives. He was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.

The appeals court also said Tuesday that it's taking the rare step of assigning the case to another trial judge because it doubts U.S. District Judge John Coughenour's impartiality in the matter.