U.S. Justice Department, May 2019: a grand jury charged Assange in an 18-count superseding indictment over the leak of classified information. These were allegations, not convictions. The case ended in 2024 with a plea to one count.
A federal grand jury returned an 18-count superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.
U.S. Justice Department, May 2019: a grand jury charged Assange in an 18-count superseding indictment over the leak of classified information. These were allegations, not convictions. The case ended in 2024 with a plea to one count.