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.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
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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DOVER, N.H. -- A new Ipswich woman has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot.
Authorities said she hired a hit man to kill the wife of a prominent Manchester attorney, but her plans quickly unraveled.
Kathryn Sotnik reported from Dover that, according to newly released court documents, Katherine Mendola, 27, of New Ipswich, is accused of putting a hit out on Wendy Branch, the wife of prominent Manchester attorney Bertram "BJ" Branch.The documents said Mendola wanted Wendy Branch killed so that she could continue a relationship with Bertram Branch.
Wendy Branch's sister denied the relationship existed."When I heard the news, it made it sound like there had been an affair between my brother-in-law and this person, and I know how upsetting this has been for Wendy and BJ, and to have that added into it is absolutely untrue," Leslie Nixon said.The court documents said that police were tipped off by Mendola's roommate, who is a confidential informant.
They also showed that an undercover state trooper posed as a hit man and had several conversations with Mendola.The trooper reported that he drove with Mendola to the Branch's Northwood home, that she paid him $1,000 for a down payment and that Mendola requested that Wendy Branch be shot in the head so that the killing would be made to look like a hunting accident."This woman was obsessed with my brother-in-law -- was a client. She developed an obsession.
Police found out, thank God," Nixon said.A statement released by Bertram Branch's law firm Thursday stated:"Attorney Branch was representing Ms. Mendola professionally, and had no other relationship with her."Because of his concern about her behavior, Bertram Branch said he arranged to only see her when other personnel at the firm were present.
"It's horrible -- absolutely horrible. My sister and brother-in-law are devastated," Nixon said.
Mendola is being held on $150,000 bail at the Strafford County Jail in Dover.
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