A former Northeastern University technology manager will serve time in federal prison for staging a bomb hoax and then making false statements to federal law enforcement, the U.S. Attorney said Tuesday.

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.”

Jason Duhaime, 47, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston after a federal jury in June found him guilty of charges that he conveyed false information related to an explosive device and lied to investigators after an incident that prompted an evacuation of buildings on campus.

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.

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

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

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.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison term for a former Northeastern University employee who was convicted in June of staging a bomb hoax on the Boston campus in 2022 and lying to investigators,