NYTimes
Apparently, one's "age" in sentencing criteria for criminal espionage cases?
A case that surprised many with allegations of espionage and even talk of the death penalty ended Friday with an 85-year-old New Jersey man hobbling out of the federal district courthouse in Manhattan, avoiding prison but fined $50,000.
With harsh words for both the man, Ben-Ami Kadish, and the government, the judge, William H. Pauley III, said prison would “serve no purpose” for a man so old and infirm, but made clear that he had lingering questions about the government’s approach to the case.
Mr. Kadish, who lives with his wife of 57 years in a retirement community in Monroe Township, N.J., said in court that he leaked classified United States military documents to an Israeli agent in the early 1980s.
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