What did Robert Hanssen get for his guilty pleas to fifteen espionage and conspiracy charges?”
Robert Philip Hanssen (born 18 April 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for more than twenty years. Despite the fact that he revealed highly sensitive security information to the Soviet Union, federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for his guilty pleas to fifteen espionage and conspiracy charges. Hanssen was arrested 18 February 2001 at Foxstone Park[3] near his home in Vienna, Virginia, charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a twenty-two year period.[4] On 6 July 2001, he pleaded guilty to fifteen counts of espionage in federal court.[5][6] He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without parole. His activities have been described as “possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history”.
