The Justice Department reported Abraham Teklu Lemma pleaded guilty to an Ethiopia espionage conspiracy.

Fifty-three and 54 are not the same age. April 14, 2027, and April 2027, are not the same date. A release sentence that says he has agreed to 120 to 262 months, and a later sentence that puts that range on the court's acceptance, are not the same condition. Daily Voice's 10 years to 21 years and 10 months is that month count in years. It is not a term a judge imposed on Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, in a release dated Tuesday, November 3, 2026, reported Abraham Teklu Lemma, 53, of Maryland, a former information technology contractor at the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Justice, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The next sentence says he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transmit national defense information to a foreign government and has agreed to be incarcerated for a period of between 120 and 262 months. That sentence does not say the court has accepted the agreement. A later paragraph says that, according to the plea agreement, he agreed to plead guilty to that conspiracy count, that if accepted by the court he has agreed to be incarcerated for between 120 and 262 months, and that sentencing is set for April 14, 2027. Conspiring to commit espionage, and conspiracy to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, are both on the release. The release says that, according to court documents, he held a Top Secret U.S. security clearance, and that from 2021 until his arrest in August 2023 he conspired with senior Ethiopian government officials to collect and transmit dozens of highly classified documents, notes, materials, and photographs, classified up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level. It says much of that information concerned an armed conflict in Ethiopia, and that the conspirators included senior officials within political, military, and intelligence branches of the Ethiopian government. It says he wrote notes by hand with classified information and hand-carried those notes out of secure facilities, and that as an IT administrator he removed electronic versions from classified repositories and then removed that information from the secure facilities where he worked. It says that on Dec. 18, 2021, he told one conspirator, "We have to finish these people once and for all, otherwise there will never be peace in Ethiopia," and that later that day he wrote, "Please send Dro[nes]." It quotes Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg saying Lemma transmitted the information to Ethiopian officials "hoping they would use it to target and kill paramilitary fighters in a regional conflict." It quotes Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division saying that, by Lemma's own admission, he provided classified national defense information to Ethiopian officials, "who then used it in military operations during an ongoing conflict." It quotes U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro for the District of Columbia: "For more than two years, Lemma exploited a position of trust to provide highly classified U.S. government information to a foreign government." It says the FBI Washington Field Office investigated, and that the prosecutors are Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tejpal Chawla and Adam P. Barry for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorney Kathryn DeMarco of the National Security Division. The release says Updated November 3, 2026. It does not print a clock, a judge's name, a courtroom, or Silver Spring.

7News WJLA, by Kendra Mann, prints Tue, November 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM, with no zone on that line. The time element's dateTime is 2026-11-03 16:29. The page record article:published_time is 2026-11-03T21:29:00.000Z. 16:29 and 21:29 are not the same number. 21:29 UTC is 4:29 p.m. Eastern. The story says Abraham Teklu Lemma, 54, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit classified information to the Ethiopian government, federal prosecutors said. Classified information, in that lede, and national defense information, in the plea sentence on the same page, are not the same words. The page says he worked as a contractor for the State Department, Justice Department and National Reconnaissance Office. That order is not the release's order, which names the National Reconnaissance Office first. It says he conspired with senior Ethiopian government officials from 2021 until his arrest in August 2023, and that he collected and shared dozens of classified documents, notes, materials and photographs, including information classified at the top-secret and sensitive compartmented information levels. Top-secret and sensitive compartmented information levels, and Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information, are not the same label. It says he copied classified information from secure government systems and removed it from secure facilities, and that he handwrote classified information in notes and carried them out. Copied from secure government systems, and removed electronic versions from classified repositories, are not the same description. It prints both Dec. 18, 2021, messages, including "Please send Dro[nes]." It says that under his plea agreement he agreed to a sentence of between 120 and 262 months in prison, if the court accepts the agreement, and that sentencing was scheduled for April 14, 2027. Agreed to a sentence, if the court accepts, on that page, and the release's opening line that he has agreed to be incarcerated, with the acceptance sentence only later, are not the same structure. It names Tejpal Chawla, Adam P. Barry, and Kathryn DeMarco, and calls her a Justice Department trial attorney. It does not print "for the District of Columbia" on that prosecutor line or "National Security Division." It says the FBI's Washington Field Office investigated. It does not print the Eisenberg, Pirro, Rozhavsky, or Cox quotations.

DC News Now, by Robert Locklear, carries a post record of 2026-11-03T22:35:34+00:00. The AMP page printed a relative time and did not print a clock. The headline calls him a Department of State contractor who spied for Ethiopia for 2 years. The body says that on Tuesday a State Department contractor pleaded guilty to spying for Ethiopia for two years, according to United States Attorney Jeanine Pirro, and that Pirro announced the plea on November 3. Announced, and pleaded guilty today, on the release, are not the same verb. It says 54-year-old Abraham Teklu Lemma pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Jeanine Pirro, and Jeanine Ferris Pirro, are not the same name line. It says he was a former information technology contractor at the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the National Reconnaissance Office. It prints Pirro's "For more than two years" quotation and the following sentence from the release, the one that begins "In doing so." It says court documents showed he held a top secret security clearance and used it to collect and transmit dozens of highly classified documents. Documents, in that sentence, and documents, notes, materials, and photographs, on the release, are not the same list. It says he has been accused of such spying from 2021 until he was arrested in 2023. Arrested in 2023, and arrested in August 2023, are not the same month. It says sentencing is set for April 2027, and that if his plea agreement is accepted by the Court he has agreed to be incarcerated for a period of between 120 and 262 months. April 2027, and April 14, 2027, are not the same date. It does not print Silver Spring, the Dec. 18 messages, or the FBI. Daily Voice printed 11/03/2026 4:51 p.m. The retrieved page did not print a zone or a reporter's name. It says Abraham Teklu Lemma, 54, of Silver Spring, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of Ethiopia, according to federal prosecutors. Of Silver Spring, with no state on that line, and of Silver Spring, Maryland, on 7News, are not the same place line. It says that for more than two years he used his access as an IT contractor for multiple federal agencies to pass highly classified U.S. intelligence to senior Ethiopian government officials, and that the information included documents, photographs, and handwritten notes classified as high as Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information, much of it concerning an armed conflict in Ethiopia. It says he also encouraged Ethiopian officials to use it against paramilitary fighters opposing their government, according to the Department of Justice. It prints the Dec. 18, 2021, sentence and "Please send Dro[nes]." It says he sometimes copied sensitive material by hand and carried the notes out, and that he exploited IT administrator access to retrieve electronic files from classified repositories before removing the information. It names the Department of State, the Department of Justice, and the National Reconnaissance Office, and says the conspiracy stretched from 2021 until his arrest in August 2023, with officials connected to Ethiopia's political, military, and intelligence operations. It prints Darren B. Cox's sentence that begins "Today's guilty plea makes clear," identifying him as assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office. It says that under the plea agreement Lemma faces between 10 years and 21 years, 10 months in federal prison when he is sentenced in April 2027, subject to the court's acceptance of the agreement. Faces, and has agreed to be incarcerated, are not the same verb. 120 months is 10 years. 262 months is 21 years and 10 months. The month line and the year line are not the same words. April 2027, on Daily Voice and on DC News Now, and April 14, 2027, on the release and on 7News, are not the same date. The Rozhavsky sentence about use in military operations is on the release. It is not on 7News, DC News Now, or Daily Voice. The guilty plea is what those pages reported Tuesday. The months are what the agreement describes. They are not a term the release says a judge imposed on Tuesday. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.