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Barrett Brown, journalist charged with sharing a hyperlink, reportedly strikes plea deal

04
Apr
2014

Barrett Brown, the journalist who has spent the past fifteen months fighting federal charges that include fraud, hacking, and identity theft, has reportedly reached a plea deal that could reduce a decades-long maximum prison sentence to less than five years. He was arrested in 2012 after being indirectly linked to a hack on the Stratfor intelligence company and faced over a dozen charges, but the government chose to drop many of them in early March.

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