A disgraced former US Navy nuclear engineer has turned on his wife after admitting to selling classified information to a foreign country, and will now help prosecutors probing his spouse for the same offenses. Jonathan Toebbe, 43, pleaded guilty in federal court in Martinsburg, West , to a single count of conspiracy to communicate restricted data over his attempts to sell the documents to a friendly foreign power, suspected to be . The sentencing range agreed to by lawyers calls for a potential punishment between roughly 12 years and 17 years in prison.Toebbe admitted that he 'conspired with Diana Toebbe' - his wife - in the scheme, despite the teacher's repeated denials that she was involved. He has also now agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, likely as part of the plea deal that resulted in his light sentence.
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