Florida man accused of Clinton Foundation hack to plead guilty
Source: Reuters
Thu Feb 23, 2017 | 6:01am EST
By Nate Raymond | NEW YORK
A Florida man accused of trying to hack the Clinton Foundation in 2015 is expected to plead guilty on Thursday, months after he was sentenced in a related case to 42 years in prison over child pornography discovered on his computers during the probe.
Timothy Sedlak, 43, is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court in Manhattan, according to court records. Prosecutors accused him in September 2015 of trying to gain access to an unnamed New York-based global charitable organization's network. Prosecutors have never named the organization. But a court filing obtained by Reuters said U.S. Secret Service agents in 2015 questioned Sedlak about notes they found referencing former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
Sedlak, who called himself a private investigator, told the agents he was researching whether charities were unintentionally providing funding to Islamic militant groups, and said the Clintons "came up in his research," the filing said.
The filing's description of the Clintons matched prosecutors' descriptions of two previously unnamed individuals who were said to be an "executive" at the charity and an "individual who has been publicly affiliated" with it.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-sedlak-idUSKBN16215F
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