Who has jurisdiction to prosecute a crime committed in space? That was the novel question raised in 2019 when a woman accused her estranged spouse, an astronaut, of accessing her bank account without permission while the astronaut was aboard the International Space Station. Now the Earth-bound woman has pleaded guilty to lying to government investigators about her astronaut wife.

Summer Heather Worden approached the FTC in 2019 and accused her then-wife, astronaut Anne McClain, of guessing her password to access Worden’s bank account. Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer, reportedly told the same story to the NASA Office of Inspector General, according to the Department of Justice .

The couple was engaged in a custody dispute over their son, who was 6 years old at the time

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