{"id":74403,"date":"2016-04-25T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=74403"},"modified":"2016-04-25T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T23:43:41","slug":"breaking-fox-news-commentator-arrested-and-charged-set-to-change-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-fox-news-commentator-arrested-and-charged-set-to-change-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News commentator charged with lying about CIA work set to change plea"},"content":{"rendered":"
The frequent Fox News commentator who prosecutors say lied about a career with the CIA<\/a> to win actual government work is scheduled to change his plea Thursday, court records show.<\/p>\n Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis had been set to go on trial next month on charges that his claim of working for the CIA for 27 years was a lie, and that it was only by repeating such falsehoods that he was able to briefly get actual security clearances and government contracting work in more recent years. Simmons had pleaded not guilty and had asserted in an interview published recently in The New York Times Magazine that there were documents scattered around the world that would back up his claims about what he did.<\/p>\n Now, prosecutors and his defense attorneys appear to have reached some type of a deal. The “change of plea hearing” is generally an indication someone intends to plead guilty – although in the Simmons case, it remains unclear to what. A judge must still sign off on a plea agreement, which is far from a certainty.<\/p>\n A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, which brought the case against Simmons, declined to comment. William Cummings, Simmons’s attorney, said: “All I can tell you, if you want to show up, who knows what might happen?” Simmons himself confirmed a plea hearing was scheduled but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n