Ex-Senate Employee Pleads Guilty To Stealing Personal Data of Republicans Who Backed Kavanaugh
Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesU.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends his ceremonial swearing in in the East Room of the White House Oct. 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
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AP Reports
Published April 6, 2019 at 8:12am
Modified April 6, 2019 at 11:21am
A former congressional staffer has pleaded guilty to five federal offenses that stem from illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican senators who backed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
The Justice Department said in statement Friday that 27-year-old Jackson A. Cosko could face a prison term of at least 30 months and as much as 57 months.
The offenses included making public restricted personal information, computer fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
Cosko was formerly employed as a computer systems administrator in the office of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.
The position gave him “intimate knowledge of, and broad access to” the computer systems in Hasan’s office, according to court records.