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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Banking and consumer groups heaped criticism on Hannaford Bros. yesterday, after learning the supermarket chain remained mum for more than two weeks about a security breach involving millions of credit and debit card numbers. About 1,800 cases of fraud have been reported.
Hannaford said it only knew in the last day or two exactly what had happened.
Hannaford yesterday announced that the breach involved all of its 165 stores in the Northeast, 106 Sweetbay stores in Florida and a smaller number of independent groceries that sell Hannaford products.
Unique credit and debit card numbers potentially exposed to fraud amount to 4.2 million, the company said. About 1,800 cases of reported fraud are related to the security breach, said Carol Eleazer, Hannaford's vice president of marketing in Scarborough, Maine.
Hannaford first became aware of unusual credit card activity on Feb. 27. Investigators later discovered that the data breach began on Dec. 7. It wasn't contained until March 10, Eleazer said.
"This was discovered last month and we're finding out about it today," said Gerald Little, president of the New Hampshire Bankers Association. "It's very frustrating to the financial institutions that an entity like Hannaford can suffer this kind of breach and then let us know when it is convenient for them."
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