A Dracut girl has been charged with leaking privileged federal grand jury info.
Jessica Leslie was charged Friday with one rely of felony prison contempt, in line with U.S. Lawyer Leah Foley’s workplace.
She signed a plea settlement on Monday, in line with a doc uploaded to her case docket on Tuesday. The settlement is to at some point in jail, which is deemed already served, in addition to two years of supervised launch. She is scheduled to look in courtroom on July 22.
Keith Halpern, Leslie’s legal professional, didn’t reply a number of Herald cellphone calls on Tuesday.
Federal paperwork don’t determine which case Leslie served as a grand juror for. Nonetheless, the paperwork do point out that Leslie sat on a grand jury in some unspecified time in the future through the dates of Aug. 11, 2022, by means of March 4, 2024.
That’s the time interval, prosecutors say, that Leslie “knowingly and willfully disobeyed and resisted a lawful order, rule, decree, and command of the Court of the United States … that a grand juror must not disclose a matter occurring before the grand jury.”
Leslie is accused of sharing info “to unauthorized individuals” together with “the names of various witnesses appearing before the grand jury and the substance of their testimony and other evidence presented to the grand jury, all while said information was under seal and not subject to disclosure.”
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