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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An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia Wednesday at 6:10 pm local time. The epicenter was located 130 km (80 miles) southwest of Bengkulu, Sumatra and 620 km (385 miles) west-northwest of Jakarta at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles).
Initial reports suggest one person was killed an dozens were injured, but officials said communication has been cut off from potentially affected areas in Sumatra.
A 9-foot tsunami was recorded in Padang, on the island of Sumatra, several hundred miles northeast of the epicenter, according to Suhardjono, an official with Indonesia's meteorological agency, reports the Associated Press.
In December 2004, a quake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people, including 160,000 people in Indonesia's province of Aceh. That quake was nearly 10 times as powerful as Wednesday's quake. The city of Yogyakarta was hit by a powerful quake that killed more than 5,700 just over a year ago.
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Last December scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) warned that Indonesia could be due for another large tsunami like the one that devastated the island on December 26, 2004.
The Indian government issued a tsunami alert for the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which were hard hit by the 2004 tsunami. The Indonesian government lifted its tsunami warning two hours after the Wednesday tremor.
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