A naturalized Filipino-American,[1] he was charged with espionage and with leaking classified information to the regime of a former Filipino president.
Hired to work for the FBI at the Army's Ft. Monmouth base in New Jersey in July 2004, Aragoncillo began sending classified documents in January 2005, according to a federal complaint.
Frequent visits by Aragoncillo to Manila allegedly were interspersed with clandestine meetings between identified, French operatives and several "illegals" (i.e. unregistered agents) around 2002 to 2004.
Statutes used against Aragoncillo:[2] Michael Ray Aquino, a former deputy director of the Philippines National Police who lived in New York City, was arrested also and was charged.
[3] Leandro Aragoncillo, on the other hand, was sentenced on July 18, 2007, in New Jersey by U.S. District Judge William H. Walls to ten years in prison.