Discord leaker Jack Teixeira will get 15-year sentence for sharing categorised paperwork

Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guard member Jack Teixeira obtained a 15-year sentence in federal jail for leaking categorised army paperwork on Discord in a Boston federal court docket, in response to .

Teixeira appeared earlier than the court docket earlier right this moment and requested the decide for leniency. He additionally issued an announcement apologizing for “all the hurt that I’ve brought on, to my mates, household and people abroad.”

Protection legal professional Michael Bachrach additionally claimed that Teixeira was subjected to bullying in highschool and his army unit as an adjudicating issue for his actions. Decide Indira Talwani didn’t purchase the protection’s bullying claims stating that the Air Pressure has already disciplined 15 different members linked to Teixeira for not taking extra actions “which may have stopped him from doing this.”

Teixeira shared categorised army paperwork way back to late 2022 on a Discord server devoted to the pixelated sandbox sport Minecraft. The leak included details about the Ukrainian and Russian troop actions and army gear used within the struggle in Ukraine and Russia’s makes an attempt to acquire extra weapons from Egypt and Turkey. The paperwork ultimately discovered their strategy to different Discord servers in addition to 4chan and Telegram.

FBI officers arrested Teixeira at his house in April of final yr. Teixeira initially agreed to with federal prosecutors in March that included a 16-year jail sentence for pleading responsible to 6 counts of willful retention and transmission of nationwide protection data and violating the Espionage Act. If he caught along with his not responsible plea and obtained a responsible verdict, Teixeira confronted a a lot steeper most jail time period of 60 years.