A former FBI analyst admitted in federal court that he unlawfully accessed the emails of a right-wing conspiracy theorist and shared them with the press and an FBI official.

Mark Tolson, 60, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of accessing Jack Burkman’s email account without authorization, according to the Washington Post. He made the move after Burkman and fellow conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl falsely claimed that former special counsel Robert Mueller committed sexual assault.

Tolson’s wife, Sarah Gilbert Fox, worked for Burkman from October 2017 to early summer 2018 and had access to the political consultant and lobbyist’s email account. According to prosecutors, when Tolson heard that Burkman, 63, and Wohl were planning the October 2018 press conference, he asked his wife if she still had access to the account, which she did. The two spent 15 to 20 minutes combing through the account, photographing and printing “emails of interest.”

The couple contacted a reporter with the information and offered to give the journalist the password to Burkman’s email, but the reporter declined.

On Nov. 1, Tolson reached out to an FBI official, requesting a meeting. They met that day, and Tolson gave the official an envelope of the emails, which he believed to be “illegal.” Tolson has since left the FBI and as part of the charge agreed to forfeit two computers and two phones and avoid contact with Burkman, who lives near him in Arlington, Virginia.

Burkman and Wohl are known for sowing fake news and pushing conspiracy theories, including a failed effort to frame presidential contender Pete Buttigieg for sexual assault. Wohl, 21, was recently arrested on a felony charge out of California.