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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I want the car, the kids - and my kidney back
January 08, 2009
During the summer of 1990, Dr. Richard Batista gave his wife his heart. More than a decade later, he gave her his kidney. Now he wants both back.
"There's no deeper pain that you can ever express than the betrayal from someone you loved and devoted your whole life to."
Batista says a few years into marriage, things began to sour.
He says he soon learned his wife would die without a kidney. He was a match -- a 1 in 7,000 shot. According to Batista, he donated his kidney to save her life and their troubled marriage.
The kidney worked. The marriage failed. Dawnell Batista filed for divorce.
Her husband alleges she had an affair with a physical therapist.
"I felt humiliated and betrayed, disrespected and disregarded for me as a person as a man as a husband as a father."
Now, the Batistas are making "The War of the Roses" look more like "The Honeymooners."
Batista has given his wife an ultimatum, give him the kidney back or pay him a million and a half dollars. It is the first of its kind in a divorce case in New York State.
Dominic Barbara, attorney for Dr. Batista:
"That is part of the litigation. We are asking for the value of the kidney that he gave his wife."
An attorney for Mrs. Batista, issued this statement, "The facts aren't as represented by Dr Batista. We will be addressing the issues before the judge within the next few days."
The divorce proceedings have continued for nearly four years.
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