{"id":1702,"date":"2026-06-04T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:35:15","slug":"exclusive-john-bolton-reaches-plea-deal-over-mishandling-of-sensitive-national-security-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling of sensitive national security documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            John Bolton, President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, according to three sources familiar with the matter.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1700\">Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            He intends to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to one of the sources. He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine, according to one of the sources.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A conviction on one count of illegal retention comes with a sentence between 0 and 60 months in prison.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The plea deal comes months after the top Trump foe was charged by prosecutors in Maryland for allegedly keeping diary entries from the first Trump White House in his home.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Prosecutors accused Bolton of sharing \u201cmore than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities\u201d through his personal email account with two unauthorized individuals, who CNN has reported are his wife and daughter. The alleged transmission of classified information isn\u2019t part of the charges he expects to plead guilty to.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Bolton, who served for one year in the first Trump administration, was originally charged with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1688\">Some of what happens during youth can\u2019t be reversed. It\u2019s another reason to rethink kids\u2019 screen time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The hearing is scheduled for June 26, according to the court docket.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump had long been long been calling for Bolton to be arrested over his 2020 memoir that was highly critical of the president, claiming Bolton should have gone to jail because classified information was contained in the book.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But unlike cases against Trump\u2019s other perceived enemies, like FBI Director James Comey and the now-dismissed case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, Bolton\u2019s case has maintained the support of career prosecutors and investigators, people briefed on the matter previously told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump\u2019s first Justice Department opened criminal and civil investigations into the book in 2020, but it was closed within a year.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the FBI opened a new inquiry into Bolton the next year, still during the Biden presidency, after his email was breached by suspected Iranian hackers, as investigators discovered \u201cdiary-like entries\u201d containing top secret information from his time as national security advisor.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1680\">New details\u202frevealed of Epstein assistant\u2019s abuse allegations as GOP lawmakers call for DOJ investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton, President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, according to three sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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