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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Adam Sandler reveals near-death experience after being choked by co-stars on 'Uncut Gems'
May 26, 2020
Adam Sandler was praised for his work in last year's "Uncut Gems" but the actor and comedian nearly lost his life while filming it. In the crime drama, Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a New York City Diamond District jeweler who has an addiction to gambling. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he and the film's directors Josh and Benny Safdie revealed that two actors who played bodyguards and repeatedly beat up Sandler's character were once too rough when "manhandling" the A-lister as cameras were rolling.
"Sandler's so in it, he's so into the character that it started to actually get a little scary one or two times because he's getting choked at one point in the scene and there were all these cues," said Josh Safdie.
The co-director continued: "There was one take when Sandler was getting choked and he was trying to tap out, but the actor thought he was just being Howard so he choked harder, and Adam couldn't breathe."
“We talk about it constantly, man. I love these guys, I love ‘em. I mean, they’re incredible filmmakers,” he said.
“I love having these new friends, we talk all the time, and I think they’re just great, great people. Of course, I would die to work with them again, because it’s a brand new feeling.
But the funniest thing is when I would say to the Safdies, ‘Your future is so bright,’ they didn’t want to talk about that.
They were like, ‘I just like ‘Gems,’ man.’ They just were so deep in it.”
Adam Sandler Gets Choked Up and Really Choked Out in Uncut Gems
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