NASA worker was accused of threatening to kill ex-wife. But she framed him, feds say [The Charlotte Observer]
An employee for NASA working at the
Investigators later discovered the emails weren’t real.
The employee’s ex-wife, 47-year-old
Caruva pleaded guilty earlier this year to knowingly making a false statement in connection with a federal investigation. On
Caruvana, who is from
She could not be reached for comment on
According to documents filed alongside her plea agreement, NASA investigators received an anonymous letter in
The letter prompted an agent to begin investigating the employee, prosecutors said.
Five months later, Caruvana reportedly called the investigating agent and told him there was a warrant for the employee’s arrest in
Accompanying the indictment and restraining order was a statement from Caruvana attesting that A.C. threatened to kill her in a series of text messages, including one that reportedly read “I can’t wait to see your lifeless body soiled in (expletive) dumped in the Hudson.”
She sent those texts to the NASA investigator, prosecutors said.
Shortly thereafter, the agent confirmed there was an outstanding warrant for A.C. in
After the arrest, the investigating agent reportedly asked Caruvana for any additional threatening messages she claimed to have received from A.C.’s NASA email. In response, prosecutors said, she provided 28 emails.
In one of the expletive-laden emails, A.C. reportedly threatened to cut off her internet and evict her if she didn’t “maintain the pool and the lawn.” The investigator later discovered the text of the email had been altered before it was sent to him.
The original email talked about an argument they had when he reportedly went to the house to fix the sprinkler, court documents state. In it, A.C. spoke about “our amicable parting of ways” and told Caruvana he was canceling the internet because “AT&T stinks anyway,” adding that she already had a new provider.
A.C. was given a notice of removal from NASA before investigators realized the emails were doctored, prosecutors said, and he was placed on leave from
During that period, Caruvana reportedly sent NASA investigators screenshots of threatening text messages she said A.C. had sent.
It wasn’t until investigators reviewed the original emails from A.C.’s NASA account on
“During part of the relevant time period, A.C. was in
According to court documents, Caruvana later emailed the NASA agent again in
A grand jury indicted Caruvana in
In a request for her release, defense attorneys said Caruvana has rheumatoid arthritis and was without her pain medication in April when she opted to self-medicate with cannabis. They said she has authorization to use cannabis for medical purposes.
“While her use of cannabis was certainly a willful violation of her conditions of release, the Court can consider that this was not a recreational use and that there was a reason for the violation (albeit misplaced),” defense attorneys said.
Another flare-up reportedly prevented her from coming to court for her first change-of-plea hearing the same month.
The judge ultimately denied her request to be released as well as a second request filed in September that cited concerns about COVID-19 at the the
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