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Former Senate staffer pleads not guilty to lying to FBI in leak case
by Kelly Cohen
 | June 13, 2018 02:49 PM



A former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to the FBI about his contacts with reporters.

James Wolfe, 58, was arrested last week at his Maryland home and appeared at FBI headquarters Monday for booking. He was arraigned Wednesday in federal court in Washington before U.S. Magistrate Deborah A. Robinson.

The longtime director of security for the Senate committee who retired in December was indicted on three counts of making false statements in December about contacts with reporters.

If he is found guilty, he could face up to 15 years in federal prison.

Court papers unsealed last week show that federal investigators are focusing on Wolfe as the source of an April 2017 article written by New York Times correspondent and former BuzzFeed News reporter Ali Watkins. Wolfe dated Watkins for three years, but he told the Times that he did pass classified information to her.

The April article by Watkins says Page met with a Russian intelligence operative in 2013.

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