Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
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Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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When video game maker Jim Greer approached Silicon Valley investors to give him nearly One Million Dollars for his startup, he used this pitch: "It's video games meets YouTube."
He named the site Kongregate.com and in June began inviting game developers and players to test it. At the end of 2006, he opened the site to people of all stripes, who can create, submit and play games free of charge.
So far, the advertising supported site offers 300 games that are rated by players, who chat online as they play.
"Not all of them are gems, but the top 100 are," said Greer, 36, who founded the company with his sister Emily, 32, and offers game makers a share of the site's ad revenue.
Reed Hoffman, founder of business networking site LinkedIn and a former PayPal executive, said timing played a big role in his decision to become an investor in the company.
Adobe's Flash software, which is used to make moving Web ads, has made it easy for developers to quickly churn out fun games. At the same time, advances in Web technology have spurred all kinds of new ways to rate and share information online.
New Beta Features: Achievements and Rewards
The Kongregate beta introduces a system of Achievements and Rewards that ties together the single, standalone game experience into an inclusive, fun and addictive challenge across the entire site. As part of this system, a player’s collective accomplishments will also be visible on his or her profile. These key features include the following:
Collectible Cards: Players face a series of exciting game challenges and can earn collectible cards by completing specific tasks, such as finding the five hidden trophies in one of Kongregate’s most popular games, The Fancy Pants Adventure.
Earn Points/Level Up: Players can also earn points by completing additional game challenges, and by rating or uploading games, referring new members, or giving useful feedback. In doing so, their level will increase as will their player status.
Unlock Site Power/Special Items: In the future, players will be rewarded with each level increase. Rewards may include new options for personalizing their profile, unlocking the “labs” category on the site, or special offers from Kongregate and its advertisers.
"If you get thousands of people creating content, really interesting things emerge," said Hoffman, who describes himself as an occasional gamer. Greer is not new to the video game business at all, having made his first computer games on an Apple II at the age of 12 and proceeding to work with Origin Systems. He also served as technical director Electronic Arts Inc.'s Pogo.com Web site, which attracts about 14 million gamers (mostly middle aged female).
This site is fast, well policed , and I saw no indication of profanity what so ever. Jude (a moderator online) was watching over the game (chat room) i was playing, so I stopped and chatted with her. She had nothing really to report, other than the games were fun, and she appeared to be an addict to them. This was our 1st time there, so I will return on a follow up story later this week .... Enjoy !
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"There are estimates that by the end of the term of this administration, they will have lost more jobs than almost any other presidential administration."
That Rose Garden event — there's been a great deal of speculation about it — my wife Karen and I were there and honored to be there. Many of the people who were at that event, Susan, were actually tested for coronavirus, and it was an outdoor event, which all of our scientists r...
This site is fast, well policed , and I saw no indication of profanity what so ever. Jude (a moderator online) was watching over the game (chat room) i was playing, so I stopped and chatted with her. She had nothing really to report, other than the games were fun, and she appeared to be an addict to them. This was our 1st time there, so I will return on a follow up story later this week .... Enjoy !