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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Fire Rages At Universal Studios (Video)
June 01, 2008
A large fire has ripped through a backlot at Universal Studios in Hollywood, destroying a set from Back To The Future.
The blaze also claimed the King Kong exhibit at the popular tourist attraction and a video vault containing more than 40,000 videos and reels.
The fire broke out on a backlot sound stage in a set featuring New York brownstone facades before dawn at the 400-acre property, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Michael Freeman said.
The fire was contained to the lot but was still burning several hours later. No one is thought to have been seriously injured.
Roughly 40,000 to 50,000 videos and reels were in the video vault, but there were duplicates stored in a different location, NBC Universal President and Chief Operating Officer Ron Meyer said.
"Nothing is lost forever," he said.
The videos included every film that Universal has produced and footage from television series like Miami Vice and I Love Lucy. Firefighters recovered hundreds of those titles from the vault, Mr Freeman said.
The iconic courthouse square from Back To The Future was also destroyed, he said, and the famous clock tower that enabled star Michael J Fox's character to time travel was damaged.
Two mock New York and New England streets used both for movie-making and as tourist displays were a total loss, said Darryl Jacobs, Los Angeles County fire inspector.
The cause of the fire is under investigation and no initial damage estimates were given.
The park reopened at noon. On a typical weekend day about 25,000 people visit Universal Studios.
However, studio tram tours planned to avoid the King Kong attraction, a favorite stop where the ape bellows at passengers and an artificial banana scent fills the air, said Universal Studios spokesman Eliot Sekuler.
Hundreds of visitors waited outside the park gates, where acrid smoke lingered, providing an eerie backdrop.
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