Dem staffer who 'doxed' GOP senators faces almost 50 years in prison

Jackson Cosko, 27, was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Capitol Police after he was nabbed sneaking into the offices of Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) after 10 p.m. Tuesday and using an unauthorized computer and log-in. He faces up to 50 years in federal prison but if he actually gets that sentence, that would be too good to be true.

Cosko [a "Pajama Boy" lookalike] was charged with five federal offenses: making public restricted personal information, making threats in interstate commerce, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, and witness tampering.

The criminal complaint also charges him with second-degree burglary and unlawful entry--both are criminal offenses in Washington, D.C.

Cosko appeared before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was to be detained until a pending Tuesday hearing.

Cosko worked on a fellowship for Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee (D-TX) from August until his arrest. His fellowship was terminated and the Lee team is cooperating with the investigation.

Before working for Lee, Cosko worked for Hassan for about 17 months and prior to that, he worked for the dumbest senator in all the land, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).

According to an affidavit, five U.S. senators' restricted personal information was posted on Wikipedia.com by the scumcrumpet. Why the website found it acceptable to print the personal information, including home addresses and personal telephone numbers, is difficult to understand. Perhaps they thought they were WikiLeaks.

Three Wikipedia edits took place almost in parallel with the Senate hearings on Senate Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. On October 2nd, similar information was posted on the pages of two more senators.

The affidavit shows that police traced the posting to IP addresses belonging to the House wired network and then found the exact computer that was accessed with Cosko's user ID and password. Bingo.

Other edits were performed by devices using the House and Senate guest wireless networks.

According to police, the creep threatened the Hassan staffer who recognized him when he broke into the lawmaker's office Tuesday night. Cosko then allegedly sent an email to the witness titled: "I own EVERYTHING" and wrote, "If you tell anyone I will leak it all. Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children's health information and socials" [likely their social security numbers].

Cosko faces a maximum prison sentence for the five federal offenses of 33 years, and with the Washington offenses carrying a maximum of 15 years for second-degree burglary and 6 months for unlawful entry.

He will be back in court Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. for a detention hearing.


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