BOSTON (AP) — A former Northeastern University employee who lied to the FBI about a package blowing up in his arms at the Boston campus has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for the hoax. Jason Duhaime, 47, from San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on the federal charges in June of intentionally conveying false and misleading information related to an explosive device and two counts of making materially false statements to a federal law …

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Federal prosecutors say a former lab manager at Northeastern University has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to a federal agent

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BOSTON (AP) — A former Northeastern University employee who lied to the FBI about a package blowing up in his arms at the Boston campus has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for the hoax. Jason Duhaime, 47, from San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on the federal charges in June of intentionally conveying false and misleading information related to an explosive device and two counts of making materially false statements to a federal law …

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A former Northeastern University virtual reality lab manager who faked a bomb explosion that injured only himself but required a major police response will spend a year in prison for his crime. “Bomb hoaxes are not a harmless act, they inflict fear, divert resources and put both first responders and the public at real risk as they race to the scene,” U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said following the sentencing. “This sentence should send a clear mess…

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A former Northeastern University employee was sentenced on Monday in Boston federal court for staging a hoax explosion and lying to police about it, officials said. Jason Duhaime, 47, formerly of Massachusetts and San Antonio, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy said in a statement.

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A former employee of Northeastern University was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday following his convicted for staging a hoax explosion in 2022 and fabricating a story about being injured after opening a package delivered to the school’s campus in Boston. Jason Duhaime, 47, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston after a federal jury in June found him guilty of charges that he conve…

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Ex-employee of Boston’s Northeastern University gets prison for hoax bombing

A former Northeastern University employee was sentenced Monday after being convicted of lying to the FBI about a bomb going off in 2022. Jason Duhaime, 47, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and two years of supervised release. In 2022, Duhaime was convicted of lying to the FBI by claiming a bomb had gone off on the Northeastern Campus. Duhaime worked in a Northeastern University media lab in September 2022. In a call to police, he …

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Former Northeastern University employee Jason Duhaime, previously convicted in a 2022 bomb hoax, was sentenced to prison on Monday.

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The Huntington News reports on today's sentencing in federal court of Jason Duhaime, convicted of making up a story about an exploding bomb that left part of the campus sealed off in 2022.facebooktwitteremailprint

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