By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison for leaking online highly classified U.S. military documents, including some related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

Jack Teixeira, 22, pleaded guilty in March to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. He was looking at a maximum of more than 16

Prosecutors said Jack Teixeira "perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history."

Jack D. Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman convicted of espionage for leaking classified information in an internet chat group, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison. “I wanted to say that I’m sorry for all of the harm that I’ve brought and that I’ve caused and that I don’t think I can really sum up how contrite I am,

The 22-year-old Air National Guard member admitted he illegally collected sensitive secrets and shared them with other users on Discord.

A federal judge in Boston Tuesday sentenced Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guard member who leaked classified military documents on Discord, to 15 years in prison. Teixeira, 22, was arrested in April 2023 and pleaded guilty in March to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act.

A former Air National Guard member will serve prison time because of his activities in a gaming-focused chat app. Jack Teixeira, who previously served in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for pilfering classified documents from the Department of Defense and sharing them to a Discord server,