John Bolton, a former national advisor to President Donald Trump and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges of mishandling classified information.
The 26-page indictment in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt charged the Republican with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.
Bolton allegedly shared classified information with two relatives while he was Trump’s national security advisor from April 2018 through September 2019, and kept such information at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, after leaving that post.
The indictment also says that someone suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran obtained classified information after hacking into Bolton’s personal email account, which he used to share that information with his relatives.
The charges came nearly two months after FBI agents raided Bolton’s home and office in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 22 as part of the criminal investigation.
