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Chuang during the hearing.<\/div>\n<div>Reuters previously reported that Bolton would plead guilty under a deal with prosecutors that included a sentencing range from no prison time \u200bto as many as five years behind bars, with the final sentence to be determined by a judge.<\/div>\n<div>As part of \u200bthe agreement, Bolton agreed to pay a $2.25 million fine. Bolton, 77, must make half that payment within five \u2060days of sentencing and the full payment within 90 days of sentencing.<\/div>\n<div>He also committed to up to 100 hours of community service \u200band to meet with intelligence and Justice Department officials for a debriefing. Bolton will also forfeit his government pension.<\/div>\n<div>Chuang scheduled sentencing for October \u200b28.<\/div>\n<div>The White House referred a request for comment to the Justice Department.<\/div>\n<div>Bolton is accused of sharing sensitive information with two relatives for possible use in a memoir he was writing, including notes on intelligence briefings and meetings with senior government officials and foreign leaders. Prosecutors said he shared more than 1,000 pages in the \u200bform of diary entries. He pleaded not guilty to 18 criminal charges last year.<\/div>\n<div>The book detailed Bolton&#8217;s tenure as Trump&#8217;s national security adviser during \u200bhis first term. In the book, Bolton described the president as unfit for office, sparking a public feud. But prosecutors said on Friday that no \u200cclassified information \u2060was published in Bolton&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Room Where It Happened.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Authorities said Bolton&#8217;s personal email was hacked by someone believed to be linked to Iran, which prosecutors reiterated on Friday.<\/div>\n<div>Kelly O. Hayes, the U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland, told reporters after the hearing that that was exactly why it was dangerous to share classified information on personal accounts.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He put our national security at grave risk,&#8221; she said of Bolton.<\/div>\n<div>Abbe D. \u200bLowell, Bolton&#8217;s lawyer, said in \u200ba statement after the hearing that \u2060his client was a &#8220;real leader&#8221; for taking responsibility for his actions, which Lowell called a mistake.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;By contrast, President Trump thumbed his nose at the classified information laws, took actual classified documents to his Florida \u200bmansion, interfered with the investigation of that conduct, and has never accepted any accountability for his conduct,&#8221; \u200bhe said, referring \u2060to a case in which Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents. &#8220;Ambassador Bolton, whose offense was only keeping a diary which contained classified information, kept a record to preserve history, but Donald Trump kept secrets to serve himself.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Bolton, who served as national security adviser during Trump&#8217;s first term \u2060in office, \u200bis one of several notable political opponents who have faced prosecution from Trump&#8217;s Justice \u200bDepartment, erasing longstanding norms that had separated law enforcement efforts from partisan considerations.<\/div>\n<div>But unlike other cases brought against Trump critics, the Bolton investigation began before Trump returned to office \u200bin 2025 and had the backing of career federal prosecutors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3029\">UN rights chief calls for investigations into US deaths in immigration custody<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3027\">Israel, Lebanon sign framework peace deal after US-mediated talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3025\">Trump administration asks US Supreme Court to endorse immigration detention policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton, a \u200bformer national security adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump who has since become one of his fiercest critics, pleaded \u200cguilty in federal court on Friday to mishandling classified information and faces up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,91],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-government","tag-white-collar-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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