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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Hitler parody video has a WIN in the Federal Court
May 22, 2020
A BP worker who was sacked after privately sharing a version of a Hitler parody video during pay negotiations has had a win in the Federal Court. The Downfall meme format has been widely circulating on the internet for more than a decade, with users adding their own subtitles to a clip from the 2004 German film Der Untergang, showing a highly agitated Adolf Hitler in his final hours. BP technician Scott Tracey used it to parody the heated and protracted enterprise bargaining negotiations process at the company in a video distributed to a private Facebook group of friends and colleagues. The oil and gas giant fired him, alleging the video depicted the negotiating team as Nazis and breached the company’s code of conduct. Mr. Tracey claimed unfair dismissal, which the Fair Work Commission rejected, ruling the video inappropriate and offensive. But he won his job back on appeal after the full bench of the commission found it was satirical. BP then challenged that finding in the Federal Court, which was dismissed on Friday.
The Australian Workers’ Union hailed the decision as “a victory for the larrikin spirit”.
“The meme Scott Tracey used has been appropriated thousands upon thousands of times to poke fun at sport, culture, politics, and everything else,” national secretary Daniel Walton said.
“Australian workers have always been able to take the piss out of their bosses, with their colleagues, in their own time.
“For BP management to spend so much time arguing otherwise reveals real arrogance.”
A BP spokesman said the company was reviewing the decision.
“We remain committed to upholding our values and behaviours consistently across our company, including at offices, refineries, and retail sites,” he said in a statement.
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