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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New Govt Anti Smoking Proposals (Video)
May 31, 2008
The government is proposing an overhaul of the way cigarettes are sold and packaged in a bid to cut smoking. The plans include removing branding on packets, outlawing cigarette vending machines and banning packets of ten.
The Department of Health is also considering introducing minimum pack sizes of 20 to prevent teenagers who can only afford packs of 10 buying cigarettes and a ban on the advertising of cigarette papers.
It has released The Future of Tobacco Control consultation document in a bid to cut smoking rates and prevent young people from starting the habit.
More than 200,000 under-16s start smoking each year and are three times more likely to die of cancer than someone who starts in their mid-20s, according to government figures.
Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo said: "Protecting children from smoking is a Government priority and taking away temptation is one way to do this.
"If banning brightly-coloured packets, removing cigarettes from display and removing the cheap option of a pack of ten helps save lives, then that is what we should do.
"But we want to hear everyone's views first."
Research had found children and young people are more receptive to tobacco advertising than adults, the DoH said.
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' lobby group Forest, disagrees with the Government's proposals.
He believes the measures will make smoking "more attractive" to teenagers rather than discouraging them.
"The best way to tackle youth smoking is through education and proper enforcement of the legal age limit," he said.
"Banning point of sale display will make smoking even more attractive to teenagers. Worse, it will drive many smokers towards cheaper counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes.
"Yet again freedom of choice and personal responsibility are being sacrificed by politicians who think they know best.
"What next? Are they going to ban the display of alcohol and confectionery?"
However, the proposals were welcomed by anti-smoking pressure group Action on Smoking and Health.
Ash director Deborah Arnott said: "Smoking is a habit which is passed down from generation to generation and this pattern can only be broken by fresh thinking and a comprehensive cross-government strategy."
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The government is proposing an overhaul of the way cigarettes are sold and packaged in a bid to cut smoking. The plans include removing branding on packets, outlawing cigarette vending machines and banning packets of ten.
