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马里兰州格林贝尔特——特朗普前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿周五就一项保留机密信息的罪名认罪，并同意缴纳225万美元罚款。
博尔顿如今是特朗普的尖锐批评者，去年因处理敏感政府信息被起诉18项罪名，检察官称他在七年时间里以“日记体”记录将相关信息分享给两名亲属，可能用于他撰写的一本书。他在去年10月曾辩称无罪。
根据周五当庭宣读的认罪协议条款，博尔顿的法律团队和司法部达成一致，同意博尔顿在联邦拘留所服刑不超过60个月，并缴纳罚款。双方还表示，博尔顿将向国家安全官员汇报他非法保留的信息，并完成100小时的社区服务，协助政府开展阻止机密信息非法泄露的工作。
博尔顿在美国地区法官西奥多·D·黄面前出庭，法官于周五批准了这项和解协议。
司法部律师坦纳·克罗格宣读了针对博尔顿的指控概要，并回顾了他使用即时通讯应用程序和电子邮件将日记条目发送给两名家庭成员的情况。
博尔顿表示他同意事实概要，告诉法官政府的陈述“准确无误”。
当被问及是否实施了所指控的行为时，博尔顿说：“法官大人，是我做的。”他补充道，他对此“感到抱歉”。
博尔顿的 sentencing 定于10月28日。
在一份声明中，博尔顿的律师阿贝·洛厄尔表示，他的当事人“做了真正的领导人会做的事”。
“他为自己犯下的错误承担了责任，从而节省了政府资源，无需再进行一场可能曝光更多敏感信息的审判，”洛厄尔说道。
一个联邦大陪审团在10月中旬对博尔顿提起诉讼，指控他八项传播国防信息罪和十项保留国防信息罪。检察官称，从2018年4月到2025年8月，博尔顿将其在特朗普政府白宫工作期间的日常活动相关内容共计1000多页分享给两名身份不明的亲属，其中部分内容包含机密信息。起诉书还指控博尔顿将与国防相关的文件、手稿和笔记——包括机密信息——存放在他位于马里兰州蒙哥马利县的家中。
司法部在法庭文件中称，博尔顿的“日记体”内容是手写笔记的打字转录件，随后通过商用非政府即时通讯应用程序发送给他的两名亲属。检察官表示，博尔顿还使用AOL和谷歌等个人电子邮箱向亲属发送机密信息。
John Bolton, former Trump national security adviser, pleads guilty to retaining classified information
2026-06-26T09:29:00-0400 / CBS News
Greenbelt, Maryland — Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to one count of retaining classified information and agreed to pay a $2.25 million fine.
Bolton, now a staunch critic of Mr. Trump, was indicted last year on 18 counts related to his handling of sensitive government information that prosecutors said he shared with two relatives in “diary-like” entries over a seven-year span for possible use in a book he was writing. He had pleaded not guilty in October.
According to the terms of the plea agreement read in court Friday, Bolton’s legal team and the Justice Department agreed to a prison term of no greater than 60 months in federal detention, as well as the fine. The parties said they also agreed that Bolton would debrief national security officials on information he had unlawfully retained and would perform 100 hours of community service to assist in government efforts to stop unlawful disclosure of classified information.
Bolton appeared before U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who approved the settlement Friday.
Justice Department attorney Tanner Kroeger read through a summary of the allegations against Bolton, and recapped his use of messaging apps and email to distribute the diary entries to two family members.
Bolton said he agreed with the summary of facts, telling the judge that the government’s statement was “accurate.”
“I did your honor,” Bolton said when asked whether he had committed the actions at hand. He added he was “sorry for it.”
Bolton’s sentencing is set for October 28.
In a statement, Bolton’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said that his client “did what real leaders do.”
“He took responsibility for a mistake he made, thereby saving the government resources to pursue a case that could expose additional sensitive information,” Lowell said.
A federal grand jury indicted Bolton in mid-October on eight counts of transmitting national defense information and 10 counts of retaining national defense information. Prosecutors claimed that from April 2018 to August 2025, Bolton shared more than 1,000 pages about his daily activities while working in the White House for Mr. Trump with two unidentified relatives, some of which contained classified information. The indictment also alleged that Bolton kept documents, writings and notes related to the national defense, including information that was classified, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Justice Department alleged in court papers that Bolton’s “diary-like” pages were typed transcriptions of handwritten notes that were then sent to his two relatives through a commercial, non-governmental messaging app. Prosecutors said Bolton also used personal email accounts, like those from AOL and Google, to email classified information to the family members.