Bored bureaucrat pleads guilty to passport snooping

A fifth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing passport application files stored in a computer database, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Kevin M. Young, 42, of Temple Mills, Md., pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of unauthorized computer access. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 9.

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