{"id":2282920,"date":"2024-06-24T19:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julian-assange-reaches-plea-deal-with-doj-that-would-grant-him-release-from-prison-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T00:00:41","slug":"julian-assange-reaches-plea-deal-with-doj-that-would-grant-him-release-from-prison-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julian-assange-reaches-plea-deal-with-doj-that-would-grant-him-release-from-prison-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange reaches plea deal with DOJ that would grant him release from prison &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjulian-assange-reaches-plea-deal-with-doj-that-would-grant-him-release-from-prison-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282920&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Julian \u2063Assange\u2062 has reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fiat-chrysler-to-pay-30m-settlement-linked-to-racketeering-scandal\/\" title=\"Fiat Chrysler to pay M settlement linked to racketeering scandal\">plea deal<\/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice that would allow him to return to his home country, Australia. Under the deal, \u2063Assange would plead guilty to one count \u200cof\u200c violating\u200c the Espionage Act,\u2063 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-jake-tapper-confronts-matt-gaetz-over-his-personal-animus-against-speaker-kevin-mccarthy\/\" title=\"CNN's Jake Tapper questions Matt Gaetz on his hostility towards Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\">involves obtaining<\/a> and\u200b disclosing national defense\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">information<\/a>, resulting in a\u2062 62-month sentence. Importantly, the \u200btime he has already\u2062 served in a UK prison would \u2064count towards this sentence, potentially setting him free. The deal still requires \u2064approval from a federal judge. Previously, Assange faced 18 charges from a 2019 indictment that could have led to\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">maximum sentence<\/a> of 175 years. He had\u2064 been \u2064resisting extradition to the U.S. for several years. His \u2064next court\u200c appearance is \u2063scheduled \u200bfor July 9-10. The situation is ongoing, and updates \u200dare expected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Julian Assange has reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nmid.6474\/gov.uscourts.nmid.6474.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"plea deal\">plea deal<\/a> with the Department of Justice, which would allow him to be released from prison to his native <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal must first be approved by a federal judge. If approved, it would allow him to plead guilty to one charge of violating the Espionage Act by obtaining and disclosing national defense information, carrying a 62-month sentence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/24\/politics\/julian-assange-plea-deal-biden-administration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"According to\">According to<\/a> CNN, this includes the time he already spent in a United Kingdom prison, setting him free.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WikiLeaks founder faced 18 counts from a 2019 indictment, which carried a maximum of 175 years in prison. He had been fighting extradition to the United States for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-wokes-worth-and-why\/\" title=\"What Woke\u2019s Worth and Why\">past half-decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His court appearance had been scheduled for July 9-10.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story and will be updated with more information.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange has negotiated a plea deal with the Department of Justice, permitting his release to Australia after a federal judge&#8217;s approval. The agreement involves pleading guilty to a single Espionage Act charge related to unauthorized information acquisition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2282921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/julian-asanage-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7076,32537,32538,32539,32076],"class_list":["post-2282920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-doj","tag-julian-assange","tag-plea-deal","tag-release-from-prison","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/julian-asanage-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}