'Guccifer' hacker credited with exposing Clinton server released from Romanian prison
Marcel Lehel Lazar, a computer hacker known as “Guccifer” who is credited with revealing the existence of Hillary Clinton’s controversial private email server, has been released from a prison in his native Romania and is expected to be extradited to the United States for the second time since 2016.
Lazar was freed on parole this week in the midst of serving a seven-year sentence related to hacking a slew of Romanian celebrities and politicians, putting him on path to be sent to the U.S. to serve the remainder of a prison stint connected to a cybercrime spree that claimed several high-ranking U.S. victims and exposed Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
Romanian authorities previously extradited Lazar to the U.S. in April 2016 after the Justice Department issued a nine-count indictment charging him in connection with compromising email accounts belonging to victims including Mrs. Clinton’s former adviser, Sidney Blumenthal. He pleaded guilty to a pair of related charges the following month, and in Sept. 2016 he was sentenced to 52-months imprisonment.
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