Looks like he violated Omerta.
"A GOP donor and opposition researcher who reportedly tried to work with Russian hackers to retrieve deleted emails from a private server used by Hillary Clinton has committed suicide, according to public records cited in a Chicago Tribune report.
Peter Smith killed himself days after he was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal where he claimed to be working with Russian hackers to retrieve some 33,000 deleted Clinton emails and pass them to Michael Flynn, a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump.
Ten days before his suicide, Smith gave an interview to the The Wall Street Journal, where he was reported to have assembled a group to obtain deleted emails from Clinton's private servers used during her tenure as Secretary of State. More than 30,000 emails were believed to have been acquired by two groups of Russian hackers, according to Smith...
When reaching out to several hacking groups, Smith implied he was working with Flynn, then-candidate Donald Trump's senior adviser and eventual national security adviser....
Smith's account is consistent with the findings from U.S. investigators examining Russia's involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to sources cited by The Journal. Reports compiled by intelligence agencies say that Russian hackers discussed ways to acquire emails from Clinton's server and give them to Flynn through an intermediary."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...lf-after-talking-about-working-with/23029625/
"A GOP donor and opposition researcher who reportedly tried to work with Russian hackers to retrieve deleted emails from a private server used by Hillary Clinton has committed suicide, according to public records cited in a Chicago Tribune report.
Peter Smith killed himself days after he was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal where he claimed to be working with Russian hackers to retrieve some 33,000 deleted Clinton emails and pass them to Michael Flynn, a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump.
Ten days before his suicide, Smith gave an interview to the The Wall Street Journal, where he was reported to have assembled a group to obtain deleted emails from Clinton's private servers used during her tenure as Secretary of State. More than 30,000 emails were believed to have been acquired by two groups of Russian hackers, according to Smith...
When reaching out to several hacking groups, Smith implied he was working with Flynn, then-candidate Donald Trump's senior adviser and eventual national security adviser....
Smith's account is consistent with the findings from U.S. investigators examining Russia's involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to sources cited by The Journal. Reports compiled by intelligence agencies say that Russian hackers discussed ways to acquire emails from Clinton's server and give them to Flynn through an intermediary."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...lf-after-talking-about-working-with/23029625/
