He was innocently spying

""Gross, a 64-year-old Maryland native, was detained while distributing communications equipment to Jewish groups in Cuba under a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]. He was convicted in 2011 of crimes against the Cuban state and sentenced to 15 years." "At the time of his arrest, Gross was on his fifth trip to Cuba, where he had been subcontracted to secretly distribute Internet equipment to the island's small Jewish community under a U.S. democracy-¬building program."" (thanks Amir)