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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Yahoo Board Meets Today - Decision Unlikely
April 10, 2008
Yahoo Inc.'s directors meet Friday (Today) to discuss alternatives to a Microsoft takeover.
News Corp. desperately wants a seat at the table because some executives think MySpace's growth has peaked and want to dump it while they can.
AOL Time Warner will also be at the table. I suspect a discussion about how many AOL employee's will be laid off and what positions will be cut if the merger is to go thru. Various reports added that in addition to AOL, Time Warner would give Yahoo as much as $10 billion and get a 20 percent stake in the Internet company. That would make Time Warner Yahoo's biggest shareholder.
Yahoo’s second largest stockholder Legg Mason sent a thinly veiled message to Yahoo this week, telling them that Yahoo’s better off independent if Microsoft lowers its offer. Legg Mason holds a 7% share of Yahoo and has reported buying even more stock in Yahoo.
Yahoo's goal: to convince investors it is more profitable as a standalone company by April 26. Yahoo would reportedly use the money from Time Warner to buy back its stock at price that is forecast to be in the range $35 to $40. Yahoo's stock rose 3 percent on Thursday to close at $28.59, which is around the price of Microsoft's bid now because of a decline in the value of Microsoft's shares.The proposed stock buyback appears like an attempt to artificially inflate the stock.
One other interesting bit to emerge today: Dealbook reported that Google has hired Frank Quattrone’s new outfit Qatalyst to advise it during this whole process.
Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. has yet to succeed, but that has not stopped preparations for what would be the next step.
The regulatory battle. The Justice Department and a handful of congressional committees have expressed interest in reviewing any merger. Attorneys have said that such a deal would be bound to receive intense scrutiny, particularly because of Microsoft and its past run-ins with regulators over it business practices. With Microsoft, there will be greater attention paid to antitrust than with other companies.
The market is betting on Microsoft to win. But that may not be the case if the Justice Department throws a wrench into Microsoft's wheels.
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