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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:33 PM Apr 2013

Paul Ryan Intern Charged with Stalking

Source: The Daily Beast

Adam Savader, reportedly a former intern for Paul Ryan, was arrested and charged with Internet extortion and cyber stalking by the FBI on Tuesday. Savader apparently sent anonymous text messages to 15 women saying he had nude photographs and threatening to distribute them unless he was sent more photographs. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison.

If convicted on these charges, Savader faces a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment.


Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/04/23/paul-ryan-intern-charged-with-stalking.html



From the FBI:

New York Man Charged with Internet Extortion and Cyber Stalking



A 21-year-old Great Neck, New York man was charged in a criminal complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan with Internet extortion and cyber stalking, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. Joining in the announcement were Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley, III, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Chief John Seto, Ann Arbor Police Department.

According to the affidavit, from May 2012 through February 2013, Adam Paul Savader sent anonymous text messages using Google Voice numbers to 15 women stating that he had nude photographs of the women and threatening to distribute the nude photographs to the women’s friends and family members unless the women sent him more nude photographs of themselves. Savader sent some of the victims links to a photo-sharing website where nude pictures of the victims had been posted.

The case was brought to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by detectives from the Ann Arbor Police Department, who received a complaint from a victim stating that she had received threatening messages from a person who had illegally obtained nude photographs of her from her e-mail account. Detectives with the Ann Arbor P.D. partnered with FBI agents to investigate the case and together identified 15 victims in Detroit; Washington, D.C.; and Long Island, New York.

If convicted on these charges, Savader faces a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment. Savader is currently in federal custody in New York awaiting removal to Michigan.

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http://www.fbi.gov/detroit/press-releases/2013/new-york-man-charged-with-internet-extortion-and-cyber-stalking
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Paul Ryan Intern Charged with Stalking (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2013 OP
Real classy, but not sure we can hang this on the a-wipe. /nt TheMadMonk Apr 2013 #1
Nude photos are such a rarity anymore, what with the Internet making them so difficult to find. . . Journeyman Apr 2013 #2
That's what creeps me out about it. sofa king Apr 2013 #10
Just one of Eddie Munster's creepy friends Blue Owl Apr 2013 #3
I am assuming these "nude photos" were of the women he was extorting... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #4
The New York Daily News put it best 47of74 Apr 2013 #5
he worked for Gingrich also JI7 Apr 2013 #6
Well repukian boys will be boys olddots Apr 2013 #7
Only five years? Downwinder Apr 2013 #8
+1 n/t AnotherDreamWeaver Apr 2013 #9
Hey, they had to fund the campaign somehow ... Myrina Apr 2013 #11
That's him in the pic with Ryan? tonekat Apr 2013 #12

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
10. That's what creeps me out about it.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 03:46 AM
Apr 2013

Looks like the guy's real interest was in control and manipulation, entirely in keeping with his political stripes.

If that's where the guttersnipe is starting out, it's easy to wonder where it would have ended had he not been interrupted....

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. I am assuming these "nude photos" were of the women he was extorting...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 11:11 PM
Apr 2013

How did he get them?

Click "donate here" at Paul Ryan's site and it uploads everything on your PC?

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
5. The New York Daily News put it best
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 11:51 PM
Apr 2013

The New York Daily News put it best;

These aren't the family values Mitt Romney talked about.


And I say;

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
8. Only five years?
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:37 AM
Apr 2013

For stalking, extortion, hacking e-mail and facebook servers.

And what was Aaron Swartz threatened with.

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