Wikipedia user ‘Sk-Gorka’ edited info about WH aide Sebastian Gorka’s gun charge – CNN

It is unclear if the user is connected to Gorka. Gorka did not respond to a request for comment.

A Wikipedia editor flagged the user's edits in August as potentially violating the site's conflict of interests guidelines, which discourage users from editing pages to which they have a personal connection. An editor's note currently sits at the top of the page warning: "Th neutrality of this article is disputed."

The details of the charge were also changed by the user to include Gorka's explanation of the incident and removed a clause that stated that the charge could carry a jail sentence. "Sk-Gorka" also added a sentence about how bringing firearms through airport security by accident is a common phenomenon.

Here's how the incident read before the edit:

Gorka is currently awaiting sentencing at 9:30 AM on 3 February 2017, after pleading guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court on 8 August 2016, to a weapons charge for illegally carrying a firearm in the terminal at Reagan National Airport on 31 January 2016. He faces up to one year in prison.

And here's how "Sk-Gorka" changed it when it was moved to the bottom:

"Gorka is currently awaiting sentencing at 9:30 AM on 3 February 2017, after pleading guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court on 8 August 2016, to a weapons charge for illegally carrying a firearm in the terminal at Reagan National Airport on 31 January 2016. He accidentally brought the wrong bag to the airport and didn't realize his gun was in it. In 2015, TSA discovered 2,653 firearms in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints across the country, the majority of whom cite as a reason that they forgot their gun was in the bag."

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