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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Google holds EMERGENCY meeting in Britain
May 20, 2008
Google executives convened an emergency meeting last night in Britain to discuss the implications of a possible revived deal between Yahoo and Microsoft.
The secret is out: What Microsoft wants is Yahoo’s search business. Reuters has reported that the deal now under discussion would have…
1). Microsoft buy the search operation.
2). Yahoo sell off its Asian assets.
3). Microsoft buy a chunk of what remains of Yahoo.
The three companies are fighting over online advertising, which is thought to be worth about $40 billion a year and is expected to double by 2010. However, there’s a serious debate about those numbers as they rosily factor in estimates about the amount of ad dollars spent on places like social networking sites and sites such as YouTube, when a growing number of analysts note that advertising doesn’t seem to work on such sites.
Google was asked if it would ever consider employing Yahoo's Chief Executive Jerry Yang if he lost his job he said: "Jerry is very talented and if he wants to work at Google we'd be very excited to have him, but I don't think that's going to happen."
Questioned about privacy, the two Google founders insisted that it was social networks, not search engines, which were the main cause for concern.
Is this why Microsofts interest in FaceBook ?
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The concealed information was gathered during the discovery phase of the nearly 3-month-old suit. If they’re made public, the documents could become fodder in Icahn’s campaign to remove Yahoo!’s board.
The information would be particularly damaging to the board if it suggests the directors deliberately took steps to make Yahoo! more expensive for Microsoft.
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Google executives convened an emergency meeting last night in Britain to discuss the implications of a possible revived deal between Yahoo and Microsoft.
