It is not yet known which of the nine counts Lazar, aka “Guccifer”, will be pleading to, or what the terms of the deal will be.
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He was indicted on charges including wire fraud, unauthorized access of protected computer, aggravated identity theft, cyberstalking and obstruction of justice.
Lazar is scheduled to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Va. Wednesday morning for a change of plea hearing, according to court records. The “clintonemail.com” domain was registered in 2009, shortly after her nomination to become Secretary of State.
The use of that private e-mail system by Clinton and her closest aides is now the subject of an FBI investigation focusing on the transmission of classified information over the private server, which was set up in Clinton’s NY home. A set of former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal’s emails were published online in 2013, which exposed a private email address that Clinton used when serving as Secretary of State. Its contents and operations are the focus of an FBI investigation. In an e-mail, one of Lazar’s lawyers, Shannon Quill, declined comment, citing an Office of the Federal Public Defender policy barring comment on active cases.
The FBI is now conducting an unrelated investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s use of that nongovernmental email account while she served as secretary of state.
Clinton’s campaign denies that Lazar accessed the server.
“This month, Lazar claimed to have also broken into Clinton’s “completely unsecured” server, which he compared to ‘an open orchid on the internet, ‘” the article stated, adding that Hillary Clinton’s handlers dismissed that claim.
Clinton’s camp says he’s lying, and the State Department says there’s no evidence to support his statement. It’s not clear how much Lehel’s alleged hack revealed about the vulnerability of the former secretary of state’s communications.
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But officials also said none of the classified material in Clinton’s servers included whole documents copied word for word from secret government servers.
