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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NH hands down first death sentence in decades (Video)
December 18, 2008
A New Hampshire jury has handed down the state's first death sentence in decades. Jurors issued that penalty to Michael Addison this morning -- the man convicted of killing Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs back in 2006.
The jury convicted Michael Addison of capital murder last month. The jury's only choices were the death penalty or life in prison for the man convicted of killing Manchester, New Hampshire Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006.
Addison had been on a crime spree before the 2006 shooting and had said he would "pop a cop" if necessary to avoid arrest.
The 28-year-old Addison admits shooting Officer Michael Briggs in the head two years ago, but his lawyers say it was a reckless act.
The defense said Addison's tough childhood and possible brain damage from his mother's drinking while she was pregnant warranted a life sentence.
The state's last execution was in 1939. The last time a NH court imposed the death penalty was in 1959, but the lives of the two convicted men were spared by a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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