Former CIA Engineer Gets 40 Years In Wikileaks Case

February 2, 2024 Crime, Government

A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency’s history was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced. Joshua Adam Schulte’s “transmission of that stolen information to WikiLeaks is one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the history of the United States,” the DOJ noted in a statement.

The 35-year-old New Yorker was sentenced to 480 months in prison for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI and child pornography. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York said in a statement that Schulte “betrayed his country by committing some of the most brazen, heinous crimes of espionage in American history.”

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