Jack Teixeira, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, who is convicted of federal offenses for leaking sensitive information online, pleaded guilty Thursday to a military prosecutor of preventing justice, a spokesman for his family confirmed to ABC News.
A military court match called this week at the Hanscom Air Force base in Massachusetts on charges that Teixeira violated the uniform CODEK of military justice.
Teixeira pleaded not guilty to the obstacle tax at the court’s fight on Thursday, his family spokesman confirmed. Another fee for obeying orders was placed as part of a plea of an agreement that requires dishonest discharge and no inclusion, according to the spokesman.
An undated photo shows Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the US Air National Guard, arrested by the FBI, over his alleged involvement in leaks online of classified documents that make up a selfie in an unidentified place.
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Teixeira said he shared classified information with the public for a “short moment of regret,” though he largely defended his actions and called himself a “proud American and a patriot” in comments on the court prior to his verdict.
“It was my intention to postpone and correct the lies produced and immortalized by the Biden administration and forced the American people of the mainstream media,” he said, according to a statement obtained by ABC News.
He said a “fraud was perpetuated by the American people” regarding the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and that he “only hindered justice to protect the people who now know the truth of a fraudulent bit -presidency.”
“If I even saved an American, Russian or Ukrainian life against a meaningless money-grab war, it was worth punishment,” he said.
Teixeira further claimed that the Department of Justice “was politicized and used as a weapon” against him and President Donald Trump, and he asked the administration to review his conviction.
“I consciously made a choice to inform the American public and open their eyes,” he said. “I did it fully willing to accept the consequences. I am comfortable with how the story will remember me and my actions.”
Teixeira, previously sentenced to 15 years in prison on the federal charges, faced another 10 years in custody of the obstruction tax.
He was convicted on Thursday under the conditions of the plea of an agreement, avoiding further inclusion time and receiving a disgraceful discharge, according to Colonel Peter Gardens, the prosecutor in the military case.
Havern said they are happy with the verdict.
“The important thing to us was the disgraceful discharge,” he told journalists after the procedure. “We wanted to reflect on our airmen and guardians as well as to the public that when you commit the crimes he committed that we need to exactly portray your service as a disgraceful service.”
“I think it’s an accurate, appropriate phrase,” he added, calling a disgraceful discharge “the most serious punishing discharge that the military can command.”
Teixeria is currently remaining a flight course pending the result of an automatic appeal process in the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, Gardens said.
According to the obstruction tax, Airman was accused of “disposal of an iPad, computer hard disk and mobile phone, with the aim of preventing the proper administration of justice in the case of himself” sometime between March 1, 2023 and April 13, 2023, and to instruct another person to delete Discord messages he sent “for the purpose of hindering the decay of the administration of justice in the case of himself.” 7 April 7. 2023.
Teixeira, who worked as an information technology specialist, was sentenced last year on federal charges, where they pleaded with six counts of intentionally preserving and transferring national defense information.
In November 2024, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by three years of monitored release.
The US military reserves the right to separate prosecution of a service member who has already been convicted of a federal court.
An air defense’s evidence hearing was held in May 2024 to determine whether his case should advance to a court tax.
Federal prosecutors said Teixeira “committed one of the most significant and accompanied violations of the espionage law in American history.”
Under the signed plea for an agreement filed with the federal court, Teixeira agreed to plead guilty to all six counts accused him of intentional retention and transmission of national defense information. On the other hand, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the espionage law.
Teixeira “Access to and Printed Hundreds of Classified Documents” and published pictures of them about Discord before his arrest in April 2023, a prosecutor said during the federal pleasing hearing last year. He has admitted in court to know that the documents were marked classified.
Teixeira joined the Air National Guard in 2019 according to his service post. He had top-secret security preparation from 2021 and began submitting classified documents online in January 2022, according to the Department of Justice.
