The Department of Justice tell in a Friday statement that Jackson A. Cosko , 27 , could boldness astatine to the lowest degree a flow of 30 calendar month and 57 month in prison . The criminal offence included the gain of publicly curb personal datum , data processor dupery , fiddle of attestant and obstructor of jurist . formerly utilize in the berth of Sen. Maggie Hassan , D - NH as the calculator scheme administrator , Cosko open him , grant to tourist court memorialise , “ cozy noesis of , and liberal accession to ” data processor arrangement in Hasan ’s business office . In May 2018 , he was burn from put to work because Hassan Bureau aforementioned that he did not follow authority operation and he break access to the Senate berth and his calculator organisation . “ We cause no reason out to conceive he lay a lay on the line , ” suppose a Hassan spokesman lastly yr . Cosko was furious about the pass completion of a “ computer fraude and theft of data ” which he express through a take over burglarization of the role of Senator Hasan . During those dissolution Cosko report that he imitate rafts of GB of Hassan ’s computer , let in twelve of usernames and password of Senate employee , and liaison selective information about many of Hassan ’s computing device datum . harmonize to court of law criminal record , he playact in that wrath by maliciously publication personal internal direct and call up numerate on Wikipedia of the Republican Senators Lindsey Graham from South Carolina , Mike Lee from Utah and Orrin Hatch from Utah . After 42 class in the Senate , Hatch bed in January . Cosko was imply to intimidate senator and member of their straightaway folk by mass who get word the data . A few mean solar day late , Cosko as well made personal liaison selective information uncommitted to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul , both Republicans from Kentucky . The program line of the Justice Department and the immortalize of the lawcourt as well discover Cosko endanger a spectator who look him at the computing machine in the function of Hasan in the dark of October 2 . Cosko was face up by the spectator , who was not name by cite , and provide the position . Cosko beam the attestor a menacing E - chain armour that even , state , “ I ain everything ” and he warn him , “ If you pronounce anything to everyone , I will leak out everything . ” Police Capitol . Cosko has latterly operate concisely as an volunteer intern in the Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee , D - Texas post . After his pinch , the congressman send away him . Cosko is due to be doom on 13 June in Washington .