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Airman Jack Teixeira Gets 15 Years in Prison for Leaking Classified Pentagon Documents

HeadlineNov 14, 2024

A federal court in Massachusetts has sentenced Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act. The 22-year-old had pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified Pentagon intelligence documents about Russia’s war on Ukraine to a group of gamers on the messaging app Discord. Teixeira was convicted of violating the same part of the Espionage Act initially used by federal prosecutors to charge Donald Trump over his mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee — dismissed the case.

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