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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Elliot Hospital unit & CMC Have COVID-19 OUTBREAKS
May 29, 2020
Fourteen patients and staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in one unit of Catholic Medical Center, and five have tested positive in an Elliot Hospital unit.
Catholic Medical Center first discovered two patients had COVID-19 as it tested them to be discharged to long-term care facilities. Neither had any symptoms.
Hospital spokeswoman Lauren Collins-Cline said the hospitals are both testing patients who are about to be sent to long-term care facilities. The hospital kept both patients in the hospital after their test results came back positive.
Catholic Medical Center is testing all the patients who were in the same unit at the same time as the two patients who tested positive. The hospital is also testing some 600 staff members. So far, a total of 14 tests have come back positive for COVID-19: seven patients and seven staff members.
At Elliot Hospital, five patients on the geriatric psychiatric unit have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement from the hospital.
“The asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 makes this an especially insidious virus,” said Joseph Pepe, President, and CEO of Catholic Medical Center.
Elliot Hospital and Catholic Medical Center say they are tracing everyone the people who have tested positive for COVID-19 came into contact with.
Both hospitals are still open.
Everyone who comes to Elliot Hospital has to wear a mask, said chief operating officer Tate Curti in a statement. Hospital staff is supposed to monitor themselves for COVID-19 symptoms like cough, fever, and shortness of breath. Anyone who comes to the emergency department with those symptoms gets a COVID-19 test, Curti said, as are all patients in the hospital who develop those symptoms.
Catholic Medical Center tests anyone who comes in with COVID-19 symptoms or develops them at the hospital, Collins-Cline said. Patients who are scheduled to come in for surgery or other procedures are also tested before they are admitted. Other patients and visitors are screened as they enter the hospital, she said, and staff monitors themselves for symptoms.
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