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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Radiation levels spike as fire rages near Chernobyl nuclear power plant
April 14, 2020
A forest blaze that has been raging in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in northern Ukraine for several days almost reached the abandoned nuclear power plant, according to local reports on Tuesday.
The distance from the nearest boundary of the fire is now just one kilometer to the plant itself, Greenpeace Russia confirmed.
The threat remains alarming as the weather situation is still contributing to the spread of fire, according to Greenpeace Russia who noted late Monday that the forecast of dry, warm weather of at least 22 degrees Celsius along with 13-meter-per-second winds although rain is expected on Tuesday.
Authorities said the fire, which broke out in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on April 4, was extinguished two days later while reporting that radiation levels were normal.
However, the remaining blazes merged to form a larger wildfire again. Officials so far have been unable to pinpoint the exact area of the fire due to heavy smoke. Nonetheless, preliminary reports indicate that it may cover an area of up to 100 hectares (247 acres).
The exclusion zone management agency has asked police to check for deliberate arson as a cause of the large-scale forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has been closed on December 15, 2000. The nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 14.5 kilometers northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometers from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 110 kilometers north of Kiev. See the 4/28/1986: Chernobyl Disaster in the Video below
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