{"id":625689,"date":"2026-06-26T19:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=625689"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:01:43","slug":"bolton-pleads-guilty-max-sentence-5-years-plus-2-25-million-fine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=625689","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Pleads Guilty \u2013 Max Sentence 5 Years, Plus $2.25 Million Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/john-bolton-scowl-150x150.jpg\" \/>The original indictment carried 17 counts against him.\u00a0 Today, John Bolton has pleaded guilty to one felony of willfully retaining classified information.\u00a0 The plea agreement includes a max term of 5 years prison, $2.25 million fine and forfeiture of his federal pension. U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes made the announcement saying: \u201cJohn Robert Bolton II [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/26\/bolton-pleads-guilty-max-sentence-5-years-plus-2-25-million-fine\/\">Bolton Pleads Guilty \u2013 Max Sentence 5 Years, Plus $2.25 Million Fine<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/\">The Last Refuge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/john-bolton-scowl-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Bolton Pleads Guilty \u2013 Max Sentence 5 Years, Plus $2.25 Million Fine\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original indictment carried 17 counts against him.\u00a0 Today, John Bolton has pleaded guilty to one felony of willfully retaining classified information.\u00a0 The plea agreement includes a max term of 5 years prison, $2.25 million fine and forfeiture of his federal pension. U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes made the announcement saying: \u201cJohn Robert Bolton II&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=625689\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bolton Pleads Guilty \u2013 Max Sentence 5 Years, Plus $2.25 Million Fine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/625677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}