ET: A 27-year-old man who worked for multiple Democrat congresswomen has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing information and illegally posting restricted info of U.S. senators online.
Jackson Cosko pleaded guilty to two counts of making public restricted personal information; one count of computer fraud; one count of witness tampering; and one count of obstruction of justice.
Cosko posted the personal information of Republican senators during the heated Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearings, including their home addresses and cellphone numbers, through an anonymous IP address in the House of Representatives.
What Cosko did is known as “doxxing,” described by prosecutors as “the act of gathering, by licit and illicit means, and posting on the Internet personal identifying information and other sensitive information about an individual.”
Cosko claimed in a statement submitted as part of the plea that he was angry about being fired in May 2018 from his job as a computer systems administrator in the office of a U.S. senator and, as a result, beginning in July and continuing until October, he engaged in “extensive computer fraud and data theft scheme.”
“He admitted that he carried out the scheme by breaking into Senator #1’s office on at least four occasions and accessing Senate-owned computers for the express purpose of stealing proprietary electronic information, including the personal contact information for numerous other senators,” according to prosecutors.
“He then published the contact information for five U.S. senators (identified as Senators #2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) using Wikipedia and Twitter, with the intent to threaten and intimidate these five senators and their families.”
All five senators were Republicans.
After the doxxing was revealed to have originated in the House of Representatives, a witness saw Cosko at a computer in the senator’s office and confronted him.
Later that evening, Cosko sent a threatening email to the witness titling it, “I own EVERYTHING” and warning that, “If you tell anyone I will leak it all.” That same night, he tried to delete all electronic evidence from his laptop and other electronics that he used to obtain and download stolen data. more here
Life in prison.
He was working for sheila jackson lee when it went down. She’s quiet lately.
“Cosko could face a prison term…”
Imran Awan also faced a prison term. He’s not in prison. This pencil-neck walks free.
“He was working for sheila jackson lee when it went down. She’s quiet lately.”
Narrator: “Actually, she’s sponsoring a reparations bill in the Senate. She has no shame.”
“Cosko could face a prison term…”
He could also face a lot of other sentences, ranging from probation to a slap on the hand fine or just public service (for a Leftist organization).
We’ll see what happens, but since it’s a Leftist in a political hate crime it may -as it usually does- take some serious watching of the news to find out.
Dude looks like he never had lunch throughout his childhood. He got rolled every day on his way to school.
Ummmm, if he was mad because a DEMOCRAT Senator canned his sorry ass why was he doxxing and putting the lives in jeopardy of only Republican Senators and their families?
He’d be facing capital punishment if I caught him doing it to me
Another Demoncrat / socialist / fascist / group think domestic terrorist
THIS SQUIRREL SUCK
I hope the little homo doesn’t cry when his (limp) wrist gets slapped.
Buttaheadgieg’s twin? Or just another 98 pound wimp?
His parents are wealthy connected demonrats,. He gets a slap on the wrist.
ALWAYS ALWAYS assume the worst about your enemies. The communists are positioning. Illegal immigrants from Central America are the dems army to counter conservative militias if things get dicey. MS13 are the hit squads. In light of this there is obvious reason for the doxing of conservatives. If it looks like a duck . . .
Eugenia, he’s Jon Ossoff’s younger brother.
If he just calls Jussie Smollett he can get some free “get out of jail” info…
He could face prison time. More than likely he will get his job back with a raise.
““the act of gathering, by licit and illicit means, …”
This made me laugh. “licit”? Who uses that word? Reminded me of “inert” and “ert”.
Soooooo……. regular citizens get doxxed, swatted….. not a peep.
Some politician gets his throw away phone number online and it’s jail time?
Good to know.