WASHINGTON, D.C. — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the US Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents.
Assange left a British prison on Monday and will appear later this week in the US federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Western Pacific. He's expected to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, the Justice Department said in a letter filed in court.
Prosecutors had accused Assange of damaging national security by publishing documents that harmed the US and its allies and aided its adversaries.Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017.
Founder Julian Assange Will Plead Guilty In Deal With US That Will Allow Him To Walk Free
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