1. Stewart David Nozette was born on May 20,1957 and is an American planetary scientist, technologist, and consultant who worked for the United States Department of Energy, the United States Department of Defense, DARPA, the United States Naval Research Laboratory, and NASA.
Stewart Nozette is a convicted felon for attempted espionage and fraud against the United States.
At trial, Stewart Nozette admitted attempting to sell US classified information to someone he believed was an Israeli Mossad operative, but was in reality an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation employee.
Stewart Nozette pleaded guilty to one charge of attempted espionage and was sentenced, under the terms of a plea bargain, to thirteen years in prison.
Stewart Nozette was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 20,1957, to Helen and Morris Stewart Nozette.
Stewart Nozette worked a couple of summers in the 1970's as a guide-lecturer at the Museum of Science and Industry while he was home from the University of Arizona.
Stewart Nozette held a Q clearance, top secret clearance, and was read into multiple special access programs.
From 1989 to 2006, Stewart Nozette held a security clearance as high as top secret and handled documents relating to national security.
Stewart Nozette left the employ of the US government in 2006.
Stewart Nozette worked as a technical consultant for Israel Aerospace Industries between 1998 and 2008.
Stewart Nozette was a principal investigator of the Mini-RF instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and a co-investigator on Chandrayaan-1.
Stewart Nozette was the president, treasurer and director of the Alliance for Competitive Technology, a non-profit organization that he organized in March 1990.
Stewart Nozette was under investigation by the Justice Department for possible fraudulent billing on a NASA contract by a nonprofit corporation he ran, "Alliance for Competitive Technology".
In September 2009, Stewart Nozette began receiving phone calls from a person claiming to be an agent of Mossad.
Stewart Nozette expressed a willingness to exchange American intelligence for financial rewards.
Stewart Nozette asked allegedly for two million dollars and a passport.
Stewart Nozette reached a plea bargain with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a single count of espionage, as well as pleading guilty earlier to the charges of fraud and tax evasion.