Bush family hacker ‘Guccifer’ gets 4 years in prison

The hacker’s targets are redacted in court filings, but previous reports and his own admissions indicate victims included longtime Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and a relative of the Presidents Bush, among others.

He claimed in May that he accessed Clinton’s private email server twice – a charge the Clinton campaign has denied and that has not been verified by the FBI, which investigated the use of the server – but found the contents “not interesting” at the time.

He notably intercepted photographs Bush had sent to his sister showing several artworks he had painted, including a self-portrait of himself taking a shower.

Marcel Lazar Lehel is escorted by masked policemen in Bucharest, after being arrested in Arad, 550 km (337 miles) west of Bucharest January 22, 2014.

According to a statement issued by the Department of Justice, ” Lazar intentionally gained unauthorized access to personal email and social media accounts belonging to approximately 100 Americans, and he did so to unlawfully obtain his victims’ personal information and email correspondence”.

Lazar claimed to have hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server that she used while serving as Secretary of State, although officials have denied that this is true.

Lazar told The Smoking Gun – the news outlet to which he first released the Clinton emails – that he did not fight the extradition request.

He was given 52 months in prison Thursday by a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia.

“I do believe there is uncertainty as to how all this will play out”, said Lazar’s public defender, Shannon Quill.

US intelligence officials and cyber security experts believe Guccifer 2.0 is a front for Russian intelligence services meant to spread confusion about the hacks against the Democratic Party. He only picked his nickname, a combination of the Gucci brand and Lucifer, after he felt comfortable that the numerology associated with the name was acceptable.