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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Alligators bites off boy's arm (Video)
July 31, 2008
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An 11-year-old boy has lost his arm after it was bitten off by the creature. Devin Funck was with two girls when all three decided to go for a swim in a pond in Slidell, Louisiana, not far from New Orleans. As the trio was splashing around in the water, his two pals spotted an ominous silhouette approaching them at an alarming speed.
It turned out to be a 10-12 foot long alligator named "Big Joe" by the locals, and the kids tried to flee. The girls made it back to shore but the animal managed to get hold of Devin's arm and pull him under the water. The panicked youngster mustered the strength to fight for his life and managed to break free from the dangerous jaws.
But it was too late.
The alligator had already bitten off the boy's arm right up to the shoulder. Wildlife officials rushed to the scene, searched for the beast in the water and finally shot it, recovering the child's severed limb almost intact from its stomach.
Funck was airlifted to a local hospital and despite the outcome, authorities are calling his survival 'miraculous,' noting the fact he was able to escape from the gator's clenched clutches is amazing in itself.
The boy was conscious but in obvious shock at his ordeal as surgeons raced to repair the damage. But despite their best efforts, doctors now say they can't reattach the limb.
"They could not save the arm," family friend Cory relates. "He's got a long way to go, lots of surgery. He'll need prosthesis."
The grade six student, who loves his PlayStation3, had only a few words for his distraught mother before he went into surgery.
"I'm sorry, I know alligators are dangerous," the Times-Picayune newspaper quotes him as telling her.
And then he asked, "How am I going to play my game now?"
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