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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Bennett death ruled a homicide (Video)
July 07, 2008
There are some new developments in the case of Brooke Bennett, the 12-year-old kidnapped and found dead in Vermont. On Monday, both her stepfather and uncle accused in her kidnapping appeared in court.
The hearings shed new light on each suspects alleged role, accusations of cover up and other crimes against children. The Judge said there was too much of a risk if they were freed and are being held pending their trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Nolan made the disclosure at a hearing at which the judge ordered the uncle, Michael Jacques, held until his trial on a federal kidnapping charge.
“He has a very serious criminal history demonstrating an extreme danger to the community,” Nolan said at the U.S. District Court hearing.
Jacques, 42, is accused of kidnapping Brooke Bennett on June 25. After a weeklong search, she was found in a shallow grave about a mile from his home in Randolph.
Nolan said the death was a homicide, but said nothing about how she died. State police say it could be up to eight weeks before autopsy results are available.
Because the girl was killed, prosecutors could seek the death penalty against Jacques if he is convicted. Federal public defender Michael Desautels did not ask U.S. Magistrate-Judge Jerome Niedermeier to release Jacques.
Jacques is a registered sex offender. He was convicted in 1993 of kidnapping and raping a woman he supervised at a fast food restaurant. He planned to initiate Brooke into a child sex ring after taking her from outside a Randolph convenience store on June 25, another underage girl who said she was a witness told authorities.
Brooke’s stepfather, Raymond Gagnon, 40, is charged with obstruction of justice in the case. Gagnon, of San Antonio, did not contest his continued detention during a hearing earlier Monday in the same court.
Gagnon is accused of having someone throw out his laptop computer a week ago while authorities were searching for Brooke.
While he was in court, federal prosecutors in Alabama charged him with possessing child pornography at his former home in Cullman, Ala.
In affidavits filed in Vermont, the FBI said Jacques changed a posting to Brooke’s MySpace account the night she was reported missing. Gagnon also accessed the account that night, but denied changing the posting, according to the affidavit.
In announcing the pornography charge, federal prosecutors in Birmingham, Ala., said Gagnon acknowledged trying to access the account again from a public computer in the Cullman library “on or about” June 26, the next day.
The complaint in Alabama said Gagnon flew from San Antonio to Cullman that day and on to Burlington on June 27.
Both Gagnon and Jacques are due back in court July 17.
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