Former Archives Employee from Rockville Gets Prison
Leslie Charles Waffen pleaded guilty to stealing recordings of Babe Ruth, historic events.
A former National Archives employee from Rockville was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for stealing audio recordings that included a report of the Hindenburg crash, a Babe Ruth interview and the first nationally televised World Series. Leslie Charles Waffen, 67, who worked for the agency for more than 40 years, pleaded guilty in October to embezzling government property. Over an eight-year period Waffen used eBay to sell historically significant audio recording discs. U.S. Marshals searched Waffen’s home in the 500 block of Saddle Ridge Lane in King Farm on Oct. 26, 2010. They seized 6,153 individual sound recordings, according to a plea agreement. Waffen admitted to stealing nearly 1,…
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