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.
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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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Police Have Suspect In Brooke Bennett's disappearance (Video)
June 30, 2008
Vermont State Police confirmed this afternoon that the search for missing 12-year-old Brooke Bennett has shifted to the Randolph home of the girl's uncle.
Police issued a release moments ago stating: "As a result of this past weekend’s investigation into the disappearance of 12 year-old Brooke Bennett of Braintree, Vermont, the Vermont State Police and the FBI have concentrated their investigation efforts around the Jacques’ property in Randolph, Vermont.
The Connecticut State Police and the Massachusetts State Police are assisting in the property search by providing a helicopter as well as additional K-9 units.
The Vermont State Police Search and Rescue Team have been called in as well.
The search will cover an extensive area.
In addition, the FBI has flown in additional resources.
Anyone with information pertaining to Brooke Bennett is urged to call the Vermont State Police at (802) 234-9933."
The Rutland Herald is on the scene at the home of 42-year-old Michael Jacques on East Bethel Road in Randolph.
At this time, police are not allowing anyone to enter the property.
A police officer is stationed at the bottom of the driveway, and highway cones also block access to the home, which sits about 100 yards off the roadway.
There are at least five Vermont State Police cars at the home, with officers wearing sweatshirts marked search and rescue, as well as baseball caps.
One officer was also seen with a dog.
The State Police Crime Lab van is also at the scene, although officers have not entered the home.
Bennett was last seen when her uncle dropped her at a convenience store in Randolph on Wednesday morning.
They did arrest him Sunday and charge him in an unrelated sexual assault case. In addition, police said Jacques was convicted in 1993 of aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping.
Father of Missing Vt. Girl 'On the Record'
Michael Jacques was also arraigned today and pleaded "not guilty".
He was unable to post bail after his arraignment and was taken back to jail.
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