Baltimore, Maryland – A federal jury has returned an indictment charging Anna Gabrielian, 36, and her husband, Jamie Lee Henry, 39, both of Rockville, Maryland, with conspiracy to disclose personally identifiable health information. sued (“IIHI”), in connection with its efforts to help Russia in connection with the conflict in Ukraine. The indictment was returned on September 28, 2022 and dismissed today following the arrest of the defendants.
Gabrielian is scheduled for a first appearance at 11:30 a.m. today in U.S. District Court in Baltimore before U.S. Magistrate Judge Brendan A. Hurson. Henry is also expected to make his first appearance today, although a time has yet to be determined.
The indictment was announced by US Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron and Special Agent Thomas J. Sobocinski of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office.
As stated in the indictment, Gabrielian is an anesthesiologist and worked at Medical Institution 1, in Baltimore, Maryland. Henry, a major in the US Army who held a top-secret security clearance, is Gabrielian’s husband and a doctor. During the time of the alleged conspiracy, Henry worked as a staff internist stationed at Fort Bragg, the home of the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps, headquarters of the US Army Special Operations Command, and the Womack Army Medical Center.
According to the eight-count indictment, Gabrielian and Henry conspired to harm the United States by providing confidential health information of Americans connected to the US government and military to Russia. Specifically, the indictment alleges that beginning on August 17, 2022, Gabrielian and Henry conspired to provide IIHI related to patients at Medical Institution 1 and at Fort Bragg to an individual they believed to be working for the Russian government , to show the level of. Gabrielian and Henry access to IIHI of Americans; their willingness to deliver IIHI to the Russian government; and the potential for the Russian government to gain insight into the medical conditions of individuals associated with the US government and military in order to exploit that information.
Gabrielian and Henry met with an individual they believed to be affiliated with the Russian government, but who was actually a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover agent (“UC”), to assist UC’s commitment to Russia to mediate, and to discuss ways in which they can help the Russian government. Gabrielian told UC that she had previously reached out to the Russian Embassy by email and phone, and that Russia was offering her and her husband’s help. Gabrielian told UC that, although Henry knew about Gabrielian’s interaction with the Russian embassy, she never mentioned Henry’s name to the Russian embassy. Gabrielian wanted to make sure that Henry could deny any knowledge of her actions. On August 17, 2022, Gabrielian met with UC at a hotel in Baltimore. During that meeting, Gabrielian told UC that she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to offer any help she could to Russia, even if it meant getting fired or going to jail. Gabrielian suggested potential cover stories for meeting the UC and stressed the need for “plausible denial” in case she was confronted by American authorities about the meeting with the UC. Gabrielian also told UC that, as a military officer, Henry was currently a more important source for Russia than she was because he had more helpful information, including how the US military operated an army hospital in wartime conditions and information about previous training established. delivered by the US military to Ukrainian military personnel. Gabrielian arranged to meet with the UC and Henry later that evening.
At around 20:10. that evening, the indictment claims that Gabrielian and Henry met with the UC in the UC’s hotel room. During the meeting, Henry explained to UC that he was committed to helping Russia and volunteered to join the Russian army after the conflict in Ukraine began, but Russia wanted people with “combat experience” and he has none. Henry continued, “the way I look at what’s going on in Ukraine right now is that the United States is using the Ukrainians as a proxy for their own hatred of Russia.” Henry and Gabrielian allegedly offered to provide UC with private medical records from the US Army and Medical Institution 1 to help the Russian government. During the same meeting, Gabrielian demanded that if she was put at significant risk of arrest, she wanted her and Henry’s children, “to have a nice flight to Turkey to go on vacation because I want not go to prison here with my children hostages over my head.” Henry also indicated that he was concerned about passing a background check for his security clearance, telling UC, “I don’t want to know your name . . . because I also want plausible deniability. In a security situation, they want names and people and all know these things.
As detailed in the indictment, a few days later, Gabrielian and UC met again at the hotel in Baltimore to discuss providing the Army medical records to UC. Gabrielian told UC that Henry was concerned about violating HIPAA, but Gabrielian had no such concerns. Gabrielian said she will check with Henry about providing medical records of Fort Bragg patients and get back in touch. The next day, Gabrielian sent a text to UC, using coded language, advising that Henry provide Army medical records to UC. On August 31, 2022, Gabrielian and Henry allegedly met UC in a hotel room in Gaithersburg, Maryland. According to the indictment, Gabrielian provided information to UC IIHI related to two individuals, including the wife of an employee of the Office of Naval Intelligence, who pointed out to Gabrielian that he had a medical condition that Russia could “exploit.” Henry also allegedly supplied IIHI in connection with five individuals who were military veterans or related to military veterans.
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum of five years in federal prison for the conspiracy, and a maximum of 10 years in federal prison for each count of publishing IIHI. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court will determine each sentence after considering the US Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
An accusation is not a crime. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in some subsequent criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Erek L. Barron praised the FBI for its work in the investigation and thanked the US Army Counterintelligence for its cooperation Mr. Barron told Assistant US Attorney Aaron S.J. Zelinsky, who is prosecuting the federal case.
For more information about the Maryland US Attorney’s Office, and its efforts to protect national security, please visit www.justice.gov/usao-md and https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/anti-terrorisme.
