Guccifer sentenced to 52 months in prison

Published September 1, 2016 4:32pm ET



The Romanian hacker who claimed to breach Hillary Clinton’s private server and revealed her surreptitious use of a private email address was sentenced Thursday to the maximum term in prison.

Marcel Lazar, known online as the original Guccifer, was sentenced in Alexandria, Va., to 52 months by U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris. Guccifer was extradited from a Romanian prison in 2014, where he is expected to serve seven more years following his American release.

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