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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Philippine Ferry may lead into an environmental disaster (Video)
June 23, 2008
Rescuers scouring the seas around the wreck of the Philippine ferry that sank over the weekend with 850 people on board say that just 40 survivors have made it safely to shore.
A total of 28 passengers and crew from the MV Princess of Stars were reported to have been found late yesterday after reaching a coastal village in a lifeboat.
Most of the other 12 reported survivors from the sea are believed not to have come from the ferry, but were instead fishermen who were sailing nearby and were hurled from their ships.
Two teams of rescuers prepared Monday to dive into typhoon-roiled waters off the Philippines to find a way inside a capsized ferry in a desperate effort to locate some 800 people believed to be aboard.
If Tuesday's planned underwater missions fail, a tugboat will be on standby with gear to cut through the ferry's hull as a last resort - a prospect complicated by a cargo of bunker oil that could leak and turn the human disaster into an environmental one.
Experts were studying the ferry's schematics in case they have to drill the access hole.
The divers, however, will get the first shot, coast guard chief Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo said, "looking for open hatches or doors on the side of the ship, diving underneath, breaking cabin glass windows if we can break them or cut an opening."
"We'll do this at the earliest opportunity, weather permitting," Tamayo said.
On Sunday, divers heard no response when they hammered on the hull, but officials refused to give up.
"We're not ruling out that somebody there is still alive," Tamayo said. "You can never tell."
Hundreds of people are feared to have been trapped when the ship suddenly tilted and went belly up Saturday at the height of the powerful storm that left 163 people dead in flooded communities in the central Philippines.
All that was visible Monday of the 23,824-ton, seven-story Princess of Stars was one end poking out of the waters off Sibuyan island, still churning after Typhoon Fengshen's full force swept through.
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