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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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Now we MAY find out if her server was hacked putting her into the position of possibly being charged with a felony that carries a 10 year max sentence.
On another note she has refused to debate Sanders monitored by Fox news. Who is she scared of, Sanders or Fox. I look for her approval rating to go down further in the next month.
RELH
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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Now we MAY find out if her server was hacked putting her into the position of possibly being charged with a felony that carries a 10 year max sentence.
On another note she has refused to debate Sanders monitored by Fox news. Who is she scared of, Sanders or Fox. I look for her approval rating to go down further in the next month.
RELH