A former State Department employee who worked at the U.S. Embassy in London until his arrest last year has been sentenced to federal prison for cyberstalking hundreds of young women in a two-year “sextortion” campaign, the U.S. Attorney in Atlanta announced Tuesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Eleanor Ross sentenced Michael C. Ford, 36, to four years and nine months,. Federal prosecutors had recommended eight years.

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