"At a later date, Awwad had travelled to a pre-arranged dead drop site hidden by "a secluded hiking trail" where he retrieved $3,000 from a concealed container disguised in a hole in the ground."
Seriously? Three grand?
You can't even buy a very good used motorcar for treason these days, it seems. Doesn't sound like much of a payoff when the alternative price is twenty years at Leavenworth.