Posted on 05/23/2016 12:39:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Romanian hacker who claimed he easily breached Hillary Clinton’s personal email server is finalizing a plea deal with the FBI and U.S. attorney, Fox News has learned.
Marcel Lehel Lazar, the 44-year-old hacker also known as “Guccifer,” first gave indications he wanted to cooperate with the U.S. government in mid-April, during an interview with Fox News. Lazar, in a subsequent discussion, said he was working on a plea deal – he then suspended media contact earlier this month.
On Monday, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia confirmed that a change of plea hearing is now scheduled for Lazar on Wednesday morning. He originally had pleaded not guilty to the nine-count indictment when he was extradited to the U.S.
He is now expected to plead guilty to some charges.
It is not publicly known whether the deal being worked out has a provision for cooperating with federal authorities – and whether that has anything to do with the investigation into Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server for government business while secretary of state.
But an intelligence source familiar with the FBI probe said if Guccifer pleads guilty to compromising Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account – which is one of the nine charges – it will show that Clinton’s use of a personal server put sensitive information outside secure government channels and made it accessible to foreign hackers.
“[Clinton’s] gross negligence allowed this material to get out to an adversary,” the source said. “Through her communications with Blumenthal, [Clinton] contributed exposure and risk.”
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cooperating with federal authorities
People who were cooperating have still been killed. The Clintonista crime family has a long reach. I hope he stays safe. Others have died under mysterious circumstances for far less.
Well said. I doubt any one person knows how many countries hacked her private server and if that person does exist they’re not saying.
In my view Hillary is most definitely a traitorous enemy of the state.
Gross Negligence in the handling of Nation Security information is a FELONY under US Code.
By accepting the plea deal, by inference, he would be called as a material witness to Hillary’s disclosure of classified material AND brings up the question of when Blumenthal is going to be plucked like low hanging fruit.
Don’t forget the NSA already made a public statement about Blumenthal’s unauthorized possession of classified material. Which did not originate from Hillary.
It looks like the FBI is wrapping up the details to start arrests.
Looks like it
That’s the way it works with elite top level government criminals.
Teflon for Hillary and all of those incolved with her crimes except the very low level people who are sacrificed on the alter of vindictiveness
Then it is all covered with unicorns and balloons
It’s not like it hasn’t happened before.
Heck, when Mr Hillary Clinton was president, they even went after their enemies animals.
Let’s hope there is that positive side to it.
In THIS case, someone hacked Her Thighness. In other cases, SHE sold sensitive data to our enemies!!
WHEN is Karma going to kick this woman in her ample arse?
Aarrgghhh!
My assumption is that any country with a national intelligence apparatus worthy of the name has the complete contents of that server. At least a dozen countries. I certainly hope our military is acting on that assumption.
Exactly...There are people in Leavenworth and other federal prisons serving sentences for crimes like hers.
Now can we shoot her as a traitor?
Which by the way is the exact legal definition of espionage. If an FBI source used that language it's very bad news for the Crooked one.
Yep, if the hacker is cutting a deal with the feds this can’t be good news for Hillary.
Unfortunately she already should have had her ample arse kicked, we can only pray it finally will happen.
It has been obvious that is what she did from the beginning, at least since Guccifer first made public the emails from Blumenthal’s account where her private server address first showed up.
That good sir is the post of the day. I shall be forwarding it to the Department of Justice and expect immediate action on it in about 1000 years if not more.
When do we get to the part where we hang the bitch for treason?
I hear you, unfortunately not soon enough.
So he’s talking with the feds to avoid prosecution, while the criminal hillary gets a free pass.
So true, and a non disclosure clause of what he found as part of saying yes I did get into it.
Give Clinton the “ personal email” defense
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