From ABC News: A woman who served on the grand jury as part of the high-profile investigation into Karen Read — who was acquitted of murder charges last month in the death of her boyfriend — agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge she leaked information from the secret proceeding, according to a court document filed Tuesday.
Jessica Leslie agreed to plead guilty to a charge of criminal contempt that accused her of willfully disobeying court rules against disclosure of grand jury information.
Leslie disclosed “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,” federal prosecutors said.
While the charging document did not specify that Leslie was a grand juror in the Read case, sources confirmed the case to ABC News.
Read was indicted in June 2022 for the death of her police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe. Prosecutors alleged she hit him with her car outside a fellow officer’s home after heavy drinking in January 2022 and left him to die during a blizzard.
The first trial ended in a mistrial last year.
In a second trial last month, Read was found not guilty of murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene. She was convicted of operating under the influence and sentenced to one year of probation.
Leslie agreed to a one-day sentence and 24 months of supervised release for disclosing secret grand jury information. Federal prosecutors monitored social media and other communications.
Federal prosecutors didn’t say how they found Leslie’s disclosure of confidential grand jury information. Sources claim that law enforcement agencies monitored social media and other communications during a highly publicized case.
A woman who served on the grand jury as part of the high-profile investigation into Karen Read agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge she leaked information from the secret proceeding, according to a court document filed Tuesday.https://t.co/5fxpRXZuhY pic.twitter.com/ivrRLczC7F
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