NSA contractor sentenced to 13 months in prison for fraud

BALTIMORE, Md. — The National Security Agency announced this week that a former contractor was sentenced to 13 months in prison for submitting false invoices and making false statements to investigators.

Jacky Lynn McComber, an Elkridge resident, was the CEO of a computer company that had contracts with the NSA. Those contracts involved classified information and most of the work had to be done in a secure location with significant restrictions on how much work could be done off-site. McComber was accused of billing the NSA for work she did not physically perform.

According to evidence presented during her four-week jury trial, McComber billed the NSA for her alleged work over a 19-month period. In reality, about 90 percent of the work she billed was not actually done by her. She also did not work the number of hours she reported on her timesheets, which listed charity events, a meeting, and vacation as activities. McComber also voluntarily participated in an interview with NSA-OIG investigators following information received from a whistleblower.

In addition to his prison sentence, McComber was ordered to pay $176,913 in restitution. The sentence was announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland.

This article was written with the help of AI and reviewed by a human editor.

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