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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Mother arrested on Killing Her Baby By putting it in a freezer
May 28, 2008
A woman in south-western Germany has been arrested on suspicion of killing her newborn baby by putting it in a freezer.
Relatives of the suspect from Horb-am-Neckar near Stuttgart discovered the baby after it had been in the compartment for up to four weeks
A police spokesman said the 20-year-old mother put the the baby girl in the freezer believing her dead, but an post mortem has shown she was alive at the time.
The woman, who has not been named, is being held on charges of manslaughter.
The case is the latest in a spate of recent infanticide cases in Germany.
Earlier this month, a teenager rummaging for a pizza at his Bonn home found the bodies of three infants - his siblings - in the family freezer.
The 44-year-old mother is the suspected killer.
In April, a judge handed a 15-year prison sentence to a woman convicted of killing eight newborns between 1992 and 1998 and burying them in flower pots on her parents' property.
The case came to light in 2005 when the caretaker of the house near the German-Polish border found an infant skeleton in a garden fish tank.
Three babies found here in early May
A few weeks later, a 22 year-old-woman was convicted of killing her three newborns by stuffing them into plastic bags. The bodies were discovered in 2007 in cartons in her parents' garage.
Experts say the rate of German mothers murdering their children is no higher than elsewhere in Europe.
In 2006, the latest year for which numbers are available, 82 young children here were killed by a parent, according to crime statistics compiled by the federal government.
But the recent spate of gruesome cases has stunned the nation and prompted questions about cracks in Germany's fabled social welfare system.
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