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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Japan bracing itself for another earthquake
May 12, 2010
The residents of Japan are bracing themselves after dozens of rare giant oarfish have been found, washed ashore, or caught in fishermen's nets. The rash of tectonic movements around the Pacific may be the cause.
The fish first began appearing immediately after the 7.0 magnitude January tremours in Haiti and the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile. An earthquake registering 6.4 recently hit Taiwan. In January a 7.2 earthquake hit the Solomon Islands, followed by a 7.1 earthquake on April 12th. On May 14tha 7.1 earthquake shook the Qinghai province of China.
Oarfish, apparently solitary creatures, are found in all temperate to tropical oceans, yet they are very seldom sighted. However, over the past few weeks, 10 specimens have been found either caught in fishing-nets, or washed ashore, off Ishikawa Prefecture. Half-a-dozen have been caught in nets off Toyama Prefecture and others have been reported in Kyoto, Shimane and Nagasaki prefectures, all on the northern coast of Japan.
Experts at aquariums and public fisheries centers, in eight prefectures along western shores, have confirmed that since November, at least 19 specimens been seen. The total sightings reaching approximately forty.
Hiroshi Tajihi, deputy director of the Kobe Earthquake Centre, told the Daily Telegraph "In ancient times Japanese people believed that fish warned of coming earthquakes, particularly catfish, but these are just old superstitions and there is no scientific relationship between these sightings and an earthquake."
The Tokai University Marine Museum in Japan says an oarfish was caught just two days before a major earthquake on Niijima island, near Tokyo, in 1963. The same type of rare fish was caught only a few days before shock waves hit Uwajima Bay in 1968.
The Regalecidae have only four species. One of these, the King of Herrings, is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest bony fish alive. It was measured at up to 17 meters (56 feet) in length. They are usually found at a depth of around 1000 meters and very rarely seen above 200 metres from the ocean's surface.
When fishermen do find the oarfish caught in their nets, they tend to put them back, because their meat is not suitable for eating. The fish have a very distinctive ribbon-shaped silver body and a long tasseled dorsal fin that is bright scarlet and rays out into long streamers.
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