Federal prosecutors say a former lab manager at Northeastern University has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to a federal agent.

Jason Duhaime, a former Northeastern University employee, was sentenced to a year in federal prison Monday after staging a bomb hoax in 2022.

The former Northeastern Universit​y employee convicted of staging a hoax explosion​ on campus will spend a year in prison.

A former employee of Northeastern University was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday following his convicted for staging a hoax explosion in 2022 and fabricating a story about being injured after opening a package delivered to the school's campus in Boston.

Federal prosecutors had requested that prison term for Jason Duhaime, 47, writing last week that the “entire incident was a hoax orchestrated by the defendant for reasons that remain largely unclear.”

A former Northeastern University virtual reality lab manager who faked a bomb explosion that injured only himself but required a major police response will spend a year in prison for his crime.

A former Northeastern University employee has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for staging a hoax explosion.

A former Northeastern University employee was sentenced on Monday for staging a hoax bomb explosion and making false statements to police about it, officials said.

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