On June 19, Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, gave the custodial sentence to Jackson A. Cosko, 27, of Washington, D.C., for stealing Senate information and posting restricted information about five U.S. senators on Wikipedia, the open-source online encyclopedia.
After the initial round of doxxing garnered media attention, Cosko released more information, this time concerning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, both Kentucky Republicans.
Cosko acknowledged he was angry about how Republicans handled the confirmation of Kavanaugh, who was sworn in as associate justice of the Supreme Court on Oct. 6 last year, and about being fired from his Senate job in May 2018.
From July 2018 to October 2018, Cosko "Engaged in an extensive computer fraud and data theft scheme 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." He then published the contact information of the GOP senators online "With the intent to threaten and intimidate these five Senators and their families."
The obstruction of justice charge arose because Cosko "Attempted to silence a witness by threatening to release the private health information of a Senator's children, because he corrupted another person and persuaded her to attempt to 'wipe down' the scene of his burglaries, and because he attempted to destroy evidence in his own apartment," according to the government sentencing memorandum dated June 11.
There is evidence, according to the memorandum, that Cosko "Considered various ways of using the stolen data to extort Senator Hassan's office, in exchange for a positive employment reference."
The evidence demonstrated Cosko "Knew that his conduct caused harm to others, and that he derived satisfaction from media and other reports that his doxxing offense had caused emotional distress." Cosko wrote a friend bragging that he had ruined the birthday of a senator's wife and said "The fact that his doxxing offenses caused distress among the victims was 'really funny.'".
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