Edward Snowden earned over $1.2 million in speaking fees after he spilled a huge trove of the U.S.’s most sensitive surveillance secrets seven years ago, a new court filing shows
Former National Security Agency contractor .in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Friday as part of an ongoing lawsuit aimed at stripping Snowden of all profits he earned based on classified information he spirited out of the NSA while working for the spy agency.Snowden’s booking agent, American Program Bureau of Newton, Mass., reported arranging 67 virtual speeches and panel-discussion appearances for him between September 2015 and May 2020.
While critics will likely view the payments as the computer specialist capitalizing on his alleged crimes, the stream of income he has managed to establish could also dispel suspicions that he’s being supported financially by the Russian government, which granted him temporary asylum in 2013 and has repeatedly extended that status.
Snowden’s attorneys have acknowledged he did not do so, but have said those agencies would not have dealt with him fairly. They’ve also noted widespread complaints from former government officials about the pre-publication review process. In April, Macmillan Publishing Group agreed to direct to the government all future royalties due to Snowden. However, the firm was not required to recover or pay back to the government the undisclosed advance Snowden received for “Permanent Record.”
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