BALTIMORE, MD—The National Security Agency announced this week that a former contractor has been sentenced to 13 months in prison for submitting false invoices and making false statements to investigators.

Jacky Lynn McComber, an Elkridge resident, was the Chief Executive Officer of an information technology company that had contracts with the NSA. The contracts involved classified information and most of the work had to be performed in a secure location with significant limitations on the amount of work that could be done off-site. McComber was accused of billing for work that she did not physically attend to the NSA.

According to evidence presented during her four-week jury trial, McComber billed for her supposed work at the NSA over a period of 19 months. The reality is that approximately 90 percent of the work she billed for was not performed by her. She also did not work the number of hours that she recorded on her timesheets, with timesheets listing charity events, a reunion and vacations as activities. McComber also participated in a voluntary interview with NSA-OIG investigators as a result of information received from a whistleblower.

In addition to the prison sentence, McComber has been ordered to pay $176,913 in restitution. The sentence was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland.

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