A wealthy stock trader has been resentenced to five years in prison for his role in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for a nuclear bunker under a home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.
that Beckwitt’s failure to provide Khafra with a reasonably safe workplace in the tunnels constituted gross negligence.
Dia Khafra, Askia’s father, expressed frustration with Beckwitt’s “light” sentence and said he feels as if his family has been “stabbed with the knife of victimization all over again.” Prosecutors said the extreme hoarding conditions in the home prevented him from escaping. At trial, Montgomery County prosecutor Marybeth Ayres said Beckwitt sacrificed safety for secrecy and created “death trap” conditions in the house.“The behavior was grossly negligent on so many levels,” Ayres said Tuesday. “It wasn't just one thing.”
Khafra met Beckwitt online. Beckwitt had invested money in a company Khafra was trying to launch as he helped Beckwitt dig the network of tunnels. A prosecutor described Beckwitt as a skilled computer hacker who had a paranoid fixation on a possible nuclear attack by North Korea. The judge said she believes that Beckwitt's “intellectual arrogance” misled him to believe that everything would go as he planned at the house. She expressed sympathy for Khafra's family and said she understood why his father is frustrated.
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