John Bolton expected to plead guilty Friday in classified information case
The deal narrows an 18-count indictment to one felony and could bring up to five years in prison, prosecutors said.
- John Bolton pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized possession of national defense documents in a Maryland federal court and waived his right to appeal the conviction.
- He faces up to five years in prison, a $2.25 million fine, supervised release, and community service, with sentencing scheduled for October 28; he may withdraw his plea before then.
- The indictment alleges he retained and shared over 1,000 pages of classified materials, including Top Secret documents, via personal emails during his tenure as National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019.
- The investigation into his violation spanned multiple administrations and was triggered by hackers accessing his email.
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Trump nemesis John Bolton in court over charges of stealing national security secrets * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff
Source link Then-National Security Adviser John Bolton in an interview Aug. 27, 2019, with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton, who once served in President Donald Trump’s White House but later turned against him, has appeared in court to answer to a charge of retaining classified information. The Daily Mail reported with his
John Bolton's declaration is the result of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, who originally charged him with 18 counts of retaining, using, and transmitting classified information after leaving the White House. As part of the agreement, Bolton agreed to plead guilty to one count and pay a $2.25 million fine. In exchange, he faces up to five years in prison instead of a potentially decades-long sentence, although the politician's team ho…
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From a close Trump employee to the sharpest critic: John Bolton has made a confession of guilt in the affair for secret documents.
John Bolton has illegally kept secret documents, which Donald Trump's former security adviser has now tried. At first, he had pleaded not guilty. He is threatened with a prison sentence.
Trump's former advisor accepts an agreement with the Department of Justice that could prevent jail, but a judge will define his legal future
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