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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Nov 11 - At least four ships sink and others are grounded as severe storms lash the Kerch Strait and Black Sea.
The ships that sank include a tanker carrying 2, 000 tonnes of fuel oil which has spilled into the sea in what a Russian official has called an environmental disaster.
Russian oil tanker splits in half
Russian TV showed pictures of other boats damaged in the storm
Up to 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil have leaked near the Black Sea after a Russian oil tanker split in half.
It came apart after it was smashed by 108km/h (67 mph) winds and 5m (16ft) waves in the Kerch Strait between the Azov and Black Seas.
Four other ships sank in the storm, some of them carrying dangerous cargos, and several more were in trouble.
The tanker's 13 crew were rescued after several hours, but more than 20 were reported missing from the other ships.
Dozens of vessels have reportedly been evacuated from the busy Russian commercial port of Kavkaz because of the storm.
'Sinking to seabed'
The broken oil tanker, the Volganeft-139, was at anchor when its stern tore apart in Ukrainian waters on the busy waterway dividing that country and Russia, officials said.
A Russian official told the BBC that almost half of the ship's cargo of more than 4,000 tons of fuel oil had been spilt.
Russian environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak told local media the tanker accident was a "very serious environmental disaster".
The heavy oil was sinking to the seabed and could take years to clean up, he said.
But the oil spill is small by comparison with the Prestige disaster off Spain five years ago.
Severe habitat damage was caused to beaches in Spain, France and Portugal when a tanker leaked 64,000 tons of fuel oil in November 2002.
Three other vessels that sank in Sunday's storm were carrying thousands of tons of sulphur.
Meanwhile, 15 crew members were reportedly missing from a scrap metal ship that sank 300km (187 miles) further west, near Sevastopol on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
Yet more ships ran aground or slipped anchor and drifted at the mercy of the storm.
A second oil tanker was being monitored closely because its hull had developed cracks.
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