A former U.S. Army major, once touted as the Army’s “first transgender officer,” and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday.
Jamie Lee Henry, who was a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and identified as a woman, and his wife, Dr. Anna Gabrielian, were charged in an unsealed indictment in a federal court in Maryland with conspiracy and the wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
The indictment alleges that the plot started after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Prosecutors said the pair wanted to try to help the Russian government by providing them with data to help the Putin regime “gain insights into the medical conditions of individuals associated with the U.S. government and military.”
The two met with someone whom they believed was a Russian official, but in fact was actually an FBI undercover agent, the indictment says.
Notably, numerous mainstream media outlets have reported on the charges, referring to Henry as Gabrielian’s “husband” and without mentioning his transgender identity.
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