


A Dracut woman has been charged with leaking privileged federal grand jury information.
Jessica Leslie was charged Friday with one count of felony criminal contempt, according to U.S. Attorney Leah Foley’s office.
She signed a plea agreement on Monday, according to a document uploaded to her case docket on Tuesday. The agreement is to one day in jail, which is deemed already served, as well as two years of supervised release. She is scheduled to appear in court on July 22.
Keith Halpern, Leslie’s attorney, did not answer multiple Herald phone calls on Tuesday.
Federal documents do not identify which case Leslie served as a grand juror for. However, the documents do indicate that Leslie sat on a grand jury at some point during the dates of Aug. 11, 2022, through March 4, 2024.
That is the time period, prosecutors say, that Leslie “knowingly and willfully disobeyed and resisted a lawful order, rule, decree, and command of the Court of the United States … that a grand juror must not disclose a matter occurring before the grand jury.”
Leslie is accused of sharing information “to unauthorized individuals” including “the names of various witnesses appearing before the grand jury and the substance of their testimony and other evidence presented to the grand jury, all while said information was under seal and not subject to disclosure.”