| https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/22/... > In Kansas City, a former FBI analyst pleaded guilty in October to taking home more than 300 classified files or documents, including highly sensitive material about al-Qaeda and an associate of Osama bin Laden. She faces up to 10 years in prison. In Massachusetts, a defense contractor pleaded guilty in 2019 to removing classified national defense information from his office and storing it at home. He got 18 months. > And in Maryland, Harold Martin, a former government contractor, took home a huge number of hard and digital copies of classified materials — the equivalent of 500 million pages — though he never shared it with anyone. He is midway through a nine-year prison sentence. "Frankly, the cases of people accidentally mishandling classified, accidentally taking it home, improper storage etc. are very, very, common and are simply dismissed with minor (or major) implications but never imprisonment." It's alleged that Trump knowingly kept and concealed them despite repeated demands to return them. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_...): > Trump certified that he was returning all the remaining documents on June 3, 2022, but the FBI later obtained evidence that he had intentionally moved documents to hide them from his lawyers and the FBI and thus had not fulfilled the subpoena. |