A lawyer who served jail time for hacking election websites appears to be working alongside the Justice Department officials tasked with monitoring elections.
David Levin was spotted with DOJ attorney William F. Mohrman outside a Minneapolis polling place during the department’s monitoring of Minnesota’s primary, according to Democracy Docket.
The sighting comes a decade after Levin was arrested for illegally accessing government election websites in Florida.
Investigators said Levin used a cyberattack in 2016 to extract usernames and passwords from the Lee County Supervisor of Elections website.
He then used Supervisor Sharon Harrington’s credentials to log in and navigate the site as an administrator. Authorities also found evidence that he separately targeted the Florida Division of Elections website.
Levin initially faced three felony charges before reaching a deal and pleading guilty to two misdemeanors. He served 20 days in jail and received two years of probation.
During the plea hearing, Levin called the event a “silly political stunt” intended to expose security weaknesses in the county elections office.
He later said he had been “curious about the integrity of elections” but conceded that his approach was “one of the bigger mistakes I’ve made in my life.”
Levin became an attorney and built an online presence as Dave the Lawyer, offering right-wing political commentary and unsuccessfully running for local office in Florida.
Evidence now points to Levin having joined the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
A photo from a July 8 ceremony shows him among more than 100 new attorneys and staff sworn in by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon. His Facebook profile picture also shows him standing in front of a DOJ flag.
The department has not confirmed Levin’s employment or whether he was officially serving as an election monitor in Minnesota.
