Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira is guilty about military disability costs

By Nate Raymond

Boston (Reuters) -Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who served a 15 -year prison sentence because they were classified online, were condemned by a military judge on Thursday after he found it guilty to hinder the judiciary.

The 23-year-old Teixeira was convicted by a judge of the Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, after he ended a plea for termination of the legal procedure that began this week, according to a deal that asked him to have no additional time.

The military charges were submitted last year after what the US authorities say was one of the greatest leaks of classified documents for years, including some in connection with the invasion of Russia to Ukraine.

The judgment imposed by the military judge Colonel Vicki Marcus was confirmed by a spokesman for the Air Force. A representative of the von Teixeira family confirmed the plea.

He can still make an appeal. His lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel Bradley Porsky, argued on Monday that the disability costs had violated Teixeiras quite a criminal offense because of the same crime after the US Ministry of Justice had followed him after his arrest in April 2023.

Teixeira said in a statement that was made during the procedure that he understood what he was doing was illegal, but it was his moral obligation to uncover what he said was “lies” that was maintained by Democratic President Joe Biden's government on the war in Ukraine.

He argued that the Ministry of Justice was “armed” against him and against him and today's President Donald Trump, and asked the Republican to reverse his convictions and punishments.

The White House did not respond to a request for comments.

The prosecutors say that Teixeira worked in January 2022 as a first class plane at Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

According to the public prosecutor's office, Teixeira disabled the judiciary by dispatching an iPad, a computer hard drive and iPhone after the leaks were uncovered in April 2023 and instructed someone to delete online messages that he had sent on the discord.

The Air Force only became guilty after the accusation, after Teixeira guilty in March 2024, to separate the charges raised by the Ministry of Justice, which he had deliberately maintained and transferred classified information about the national defense.

Teixeira was later sentenced to 15 years in prison by a federal judge in Boston in November.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editor of Daniel Wallis and Nia Williams)