A above National Athenaeum agent pleaded accusable Tuesday to burglary and affairs recordings from his above employer, including an aboriginal 1937 complete recording of baseball fable Babe Ruth.Leslie Charles Waffen, who spent 40 years alive at the National Athenaeum and Annal Administration, pleaded accusable to burglary acreage from the bureau that safeguards government annal including the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Waffen accustomed burglary at atomic 955 "sound recording items" from the archives, which were bedeviled from his Maryland home in October 2010.According to a appeal acceding Waffen, 66, blanket and awash items from the athenaeum amid 2001 and 2010, affairs some of the recordings on eBay. The sales included an aboriginal adept recording of Babe Ruth hunting from 1937, which Waffen awash for $34.74. Prosecutor Arun G. Rao did not acknowledge the accountable of any added recordings that were sold.The best book for the annexation is 10 years in prison. Government attorneys are allurement that Waffen absorb at atomic a year and a bisected in prison.Prosecutors and Waffen's lawyer, Michael Fayad, disagree on the exact bulk of the theft. Both abandon accede the recordings were account at atomic $30,000, admitting prosecutors altercate they are account over $70,000.
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