John Bolton, the former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump, has reportedly agreed to a plea deal over the mishandling of classified national security information.
Bolton is set to plead guilty to a single felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security information and will pay a fine exceeding $2 million, reported CNN on Thursday.
A conviction for illegal retention carries a potential prison sentence of zero to five years, with the hearing scheduled for June 26.
The plea deal comes in the wake of charges filed against Bolton by Maryland prosecutors for allegedly retaining personal diary entries from his tenure in Trump's first administration at his residence.
These entries, reportedly over a thousand pages, contained information about his daily activities, which he allegedly shared with two unauthorized individuals via his personal email account.
