On June 21, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York announced that a former grand juror had pled guilty to leaking secret grand jury information to a number of people between November 2016 and May 2017.
According to court filings, Casey Lipps, 26, of North Tonawanda, New York, was selected to serve on a federal grand jury in October 2016. North Tonawanda is a city of around 32,000 located midway between Buffalo and Niagara Falls in western New York.