Question: Jeffrey Alexander Sterling was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating a United States federal law passed on what date?
Context: Robert Foster Winans (born August 5, 1948) is a former columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" who co-wrote the "Heard on the Street Column" from 1982 to 1984 and was convicted of insider trading and mail fraud.  He was indicted by then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and convicted in 1985 of violating Federal law by leaking advance word of the contents of his columns to a stockbroker, Peter N. Brant, at Kidder, Peabody & Co., an old-line brokerage firm.  Brant was decades later labeled a recidivist by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Winans' conviction for violating securities law was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 as "Carpenter v. United States" by a rare 4–4 deadlocked vote.  The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed his convictions for committing federal mail and wire fraud, however.  He served nine months in federal prison. Pennsylvania v. Nelson, 350 U.S. 497 (1956) , was a United States Supreme Court case that established a precedent for the preemption of United States Federal law over State laws.  The case was argued November 15–16, 1955 and the decision was handed down April 2, 1956.  The State of Pennsylvania tried to convict a man of sedition under a state law, but a Federal law existed on the same subject.  The Court ruled that the Federal law, the Smith Act, overruled the state law, the Pennsylvania Sedition Act, even though the state law was created before the federal law.  Nelson, who was convicted under the state law, was therefore mistried. The Federal Law on Refugees and Exiles (German: Bundesvertriebenengesetz , BVFG; "Gesetz über die Angelegenheiten der Vertriebenen und Flüchtlinge"; literally: Law on the affairs of the expellees and refugees) is a federal law passed by the Federal Republic of Germany on 19 May 1953 to regulate the legal situation of ethnic German refugees and expellees who fled or were expelled after World War II from the former eastern territories of the German Reich and other areas of Central and Eastern Europe.  The law was amended on 3 September 1971. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling is an American lawyer and former CIA employee who was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating the Espionage Act for revealing details about Operation Merlin to journalist James Risen.  The case was based entirely on what the judge called "very powerful circumstantial evidence," with no evidence that Sterling shared any classified information with Risen.  In May 2015, Sterling was sentenced to 3½ years in prison.  In 2016 and 2017, he filed complaints and wrote letters regarding mistreatment, lack of medical treatment for life-threatening conditions, and false allegations against him by corrections officers leading to further punitive measures. The Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990 (FDCPA), Title XXXVI of the Crime Control Act of 1990, Pub.  L. No. 101-647, 104 Stat.  4789, 4933 (Nov. 29, 1990), is a United States federal law passed in 1990, affecting collection of money owed to the United States government.  The FDCPA preempts state remedy laws in most circumstances. Celler–Kefauver Act is a United States federal law passed in 1950 that reformed and strengthened the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 which had amended the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.  The Celler–Kefauver Act was passed to close a loophole regarding asset acquisitions and acquisitions involving firms that were not direct competitors.  While the Clayton Act prohibited stock purchase mergers that resulted in reduced competition, shrewd businessmen were able to find ways around the Clayton Act by simply buying up a competitor's assets.  The Celler–Kefauver Act prohibited this practice if competition would be reduced as a result of the asset acquisition. The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I.  It has been amended numerous times over the years.  It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime.  Specifically, it is 18 U.S.C. ch.  37 ( /792 § 792  et seq.) The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 (Pub.L.  97–300 , , et seq.) was a United States federal law passed October 13, 1982, by the United States Department of Labor during the Ronald Reagan administration.  The law was the successor to the previous federal job training legislation, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA).  It was repealed by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 during the administration of President Bill Clinton. The Federal Home Loan Bank Act, Pub.L.  72–304 , 47 Stat.  725 , enacted  22, 1932 , is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership.  It established the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter and supervise federal savings and loan institutions.  It also created the Federal Home Loan Banks which lend to building and loan associations, cooperative banks, homestead associations, insurance companies, savings banks, community development financial institutions, and insured depository institutions in order to finance home mortgages. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a United States federal law enforcement agency.  A subdivision of the U.S. Department of Justice, the BOP is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system.  The system handles inmates who have violated, or are accused of violating, federal law.  The BOP also holds inmates who have committed felonies in Washington, D.C.
Answer: June 15, 1917