In December 2009 he was arrested while in Cuba working as a U.S. government subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) as part of a program funded under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act .
In December 2009 , he was arrested while in Cuba working as a U.S. government subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) as part of a program funded under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act .