NASA is investigating what may be the first space crime

guest · Aug 24, 2019

NASA is investigating what may be the first space crime
August 24, 2019
https://qz.com/1694592/nasa-is-investigating-what-may-be-the-first-space-crime/

McClain is a decorated NASA astronaut, and the allegations against her are unrelated to her work. She is accused, however, by her ex-wife Summer Worden, of identity theft. The alleged crime, according to Worden, took place while McClain was on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Worden filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. Her family lodged a similar claim with NASA’s Inspector General’s Office, and now investigators are trying to get to the bottom of this novel situation, the New York Times reports.
In any case, the space agency is getting a taste of what the future holds.

And while there is no doubt that the long arm of the law reaches beyond this planet, prosecuting cases that arise in space will likely be especially complicated.
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guest · Apr 7, 2020

Woman who accused NASA astronaut wife of hacking bank account charged with false allegations
April 7, 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ut-wife-hacking-bank-account-charged-n1178611

A former Air Force intelligence officer who accused her NASA astronaut wife of hacking her bank account from space has been charged with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities, the Justice Department announced Monday.

She said Monday that she accidentally gave investigators the wrong date of the bank account opening, but later corrected the information, The New York Times reported. “I didn’t misrepresent anything,” Worden said.
In a statement posted on Twitter at the time, McClain wrote that an investigation by the Inspector General would prove that there was "unequivocally no truth" to her wife's claims.
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