Source: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/officer-prison-deleting-army-materials/
A former Ranger who became an Army lawyer was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for lying about contacting a Russian embassy and deleting military-owned training materials from a computer system.
Manfredo Martin-Michael Madrigal, 38, also faced charges stemming from alleged harassment against two former girlfriends who were potential witnesses in the case. In court documents, one woman alleged that Madrigal sent her a mocking email that said “sorry to see you are still a failure” after he hacked into an app she used to track her menstrual cycles and learned of a negative pregnancy test, court documents say.
Madrigal signed a plea agreement July 16, 2024, and was sentenced Thursday, Department of Justice officials said in a release. The charges involving his former girlfriends — including cyberstalking as a form of domestic violence, and attempting to tamper with a witness or victim through intimidation, threats, corrupt persuasion, or misleading conduct — were dismissed at Madrigal’s sentencing.
Emails sent by Task & Purpose to Madrigal’s lawyers seeking comment were not returned.
Before becoming a lawyer in 2019, Madrigal served as an infantry soldier and non-commissioned officer in the 75th Ranger Regiment and 82nd Airborne Division. In those roles, he served “multiple tours of duty in combat zones overseas,” according to court documents. Inquiries sent to the Army by Task & Purpose about Madrigal’s service history were not immediately returned, but he is pictured as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne in 2014 in a military photo archive.
According to the indictment, Madrigal got his legal degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2019, a master’s degree in Homeland Security in 2019, and was admitted to the Missouri State Bar in 2020.
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