Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to one felony charge under the Espionage Act in a plea deal that will allow him to go free from prison and bring to an end a years-long legal saga stemming from his role in one of the largest publications of classified information in U.S. history, according to court documents filed Monday.
Assange will plead guilty to conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate national defense information, under the plea deal, which still must be approved by a judge.
Assange is slated to appear in federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, The Associated Press reported. Assange has spent the last five years in a British prison.
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