Jack Teixeira, Massachusetts Air’s national man convicted of federal crimes for filtering delicate online information, declared himself guilty on Thursday of a military position to obstruct justice, a spokesman for his family confirmed ABC News.
A military court was convened this week at the base of the Hanscom Air Force in Massachusetts for charges claiming that Teixeira violated the uniform code of military justice.
An image without a date shows Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21 -year -old member of the United States Air Guard, which was arrested by the FBI, for his alleged participation in online leaks of classified documents, posing for a selfie in an unidentified place.
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Teixeira declared himself guilty of the position of obstruction in the Martial Court on Thursday, confirmed his family spokesman. According to the spokesman, a second position was withdrawn to disobey orders as part of a guilt agreement, which requires a dishonorable and confinement discharge, according to the spokesman.
It is expected to be sentenced later on Thursday, according to the spokesman.
According to the obstruction charge, he was accused of “getting rid of an iPad, a hard disk of the computer and a cell phone, with the intention of obstructing the proper administration of justice in the case of himself” at some point between March 1, 2023 and April 13, 2023, as well as to direct another person to eliminate the messages of discord that he sent “with the intention of obstructing the administration of justice in the case of itself. 2023, 2023.
Teixeira, who worked as a specialist in Information Technology, was sentenced last year for federal positions, declaring a deliberately retaining and transmission of national defense information.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised liberation.
The US Army. UU. Reserves the right to prosecute a service member separately that has already been convicted in a federal court.
In May 2024, a Air Force probative hearing was held to determine if your case should advance to a Martial Air Force Court.
Federal prosecutors said Teixeira “perpetrated one of the most significant and consequent violations of the Spying Law in the history of the United States.”
According to the signed guilt agreement presented to the Federal Court, Teixeira agreed to declare himself guilty of the six positions that accused him of intentional retention and transmission of the national defense information. In return, prosecutors agreed not to accuse him with additional charges under the espionage law.
Teixeira “agreed and printed hundreds of classified documents” E published images of them in discord before their arrest in April 2023, a prosecutor said during the Federal Guilt Hearing last year. He has admitted in the Court to have known that the documents were marked classified.
Teixeira enlisted at the National Air Guard in 2019, according to its service history. He had a high secret security authorization from 2021 and began publishing documents classified online in January 2022, according to the Department of Justice.