Overview

• Slater pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to transmit national defense information to an unauthorized person via a foreign online dating platform.
• He held top-secret clearance at USSTRATCOM’s Offutt Air Force Base and attended classified briefings on Russia’s war in Ukraine in early 2022.
• As part of a plea deal, two additional charges were dropped and prosecutors will recommend a prison term of five years and ten months to seven years and three months.
• U.S. District Judge Brian Buescher will decide whether to accept the plea agreement and will sentence Slater on October 8.
• Court documents do not identify the co-conspirator or the dating platform, leaving the recipient’s nationality and motives unresolved.