Retired Army officer pleads guilty to sharing classified info on Russia-Ukraine war on dating site

Retired Army officer pleads guilty to sharing classified info on Russia-Ukraine war on dating site


Prosecutors and his lawyers agreed that he should serve between five years and 10 months and seven years and three months in prison, and the government will recommend a term at the low end of that range. In his plea agreement, he acknowledged that he conspired to transmit classified information that he learned from those briefings via the foreign dating website's messaging platform to an unnamed coconspirator, who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine. "Defendant knew and had reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of a foreign nation," the agreement states.

Author: The Associated Press


Published at: 2025-07-14 22:55:37

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