In this artist depiction, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, seated second from proper, seems in U.S. District Court, in Boston, April 19, 2023. Teixeira, accused of leaking extremely categorised army paperwork on a social media platform, is due again in court docket on June 21, after being indicted on federal felony costs.

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In this artist depiction, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, seated second from proper, seems in U.S. District Court, in Boston, April 19, 2023. Teixeira, accused of leaking extremely categorised army paperwork on a social media platform, is due again in court docket on June 21, after being indicted on federal felony costs.

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Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified documents online, pleaded not responsible in court docket Wednesday to 6 federal costs.

The 21-year-old guardsman entered the pleas in a Massachusetts court docket after he was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Boston. He is at present going through six counts of willful retention and transmission of nationwide protection data, based on the Department of Justice.

Each cost Teixeira faces has a sentence of as much as 10 years in jail, as much as three years of supervised launch and a tremendous of as much as $250,000.

“The unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified information jeopardizes our nation’s security. Individuals granted access to classified materials have a fundamental duty to safeguard the information for the safety of the United States, our active service members, its citizens and its allies,” Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy stated in an announcement following Teixeira’s indictment.

Following the information of his plea, Teixeira’s household stated in an announcement Wednesday to The Associated Press that they’ll “remain committed as ever” in relation to supporting him.

“The important thing is Jack will now have his day in court,” the household stated. “We are hopeful that Jack will be getting the fair and just treatment he deserves.”

Teixeira, who was arrested in April, faces costs pertaining to sharing extremely categorised army paperwork in regards to the warfare in Ukraine — together with different high nationwide safety points — on the favored social media web site Discord.

At the request of prosecutors, a federal decide had ordered Teixeira to remain behind bars till his trial.

The subsequent listening to in Teixeira’s case is about to happen on August 9.