{"id":28860,"date":"2019-09-03T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30459\/Hammond-Summoned-To-Testify-Before-Federal-Grand-Jury.html"},"modified":"2019-09-03T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:57:02","slug":"hammond-summoned-to-testify-before-federal-grand-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/hammond-summoned-to-testify-before-federal-grand-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammond Summoned To Testify Before Federal Grand Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"A<\/span><\/div>\n

A leaked FBI surveillance photo taken of Jeremy Hammond on February 29, 2012, six days before the SWAT raid on his Chicago home. Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/p><\/div>\n

Imprisoned hacktivist Jeremy Alexander Hammond, a former WikiLeaks source once regarded as the FBI\u2019s most-wanted cybercriminal, has been called to testify before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, Gizmodo has learned.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Jeremy Hammond Support Committee announced<\/a> that the 34-year-old Chicago hacker had been transferred from his medium-security prison in Memphis, Tennessee, to a federal transfer center in Oklahoma City. But on Tuesday he arrived in Virginia, where he\u2019s expected to be questioned before a grand jury regarding his past ties with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization whose founder, Julian Assange, currently faces a slew of federal charges, including several under the Espionage Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

Advertisement<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cGiven the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, we don\u2019t know the nature or scope of the grand jury\u2019s investigation. However, our assumption is that this is the same grand jury that Chelsea Manning is currently being incarcerated for refusing to testify before,\u201d his supporters said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n