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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 19 2017, @03:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the cue-the-"not-so-virgin-islands"-jokes... dept.

Two former staffers of a congresswoman were indicted Thursday on charges of posting nude pictures of the lawmaker and her husband on social media and of lying to investigators about it.

The indictments surround former aides to Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat and non-voting delegate to the House representing the Virgin Islands. The cyberstalking charges allege that Juan McCullum, Plaskett's general counsel, published nude images of the congresswoman and her husband on a fictitious Facebook account and elsewhere. He accessed the images, the authorities said, when he took Plaskett's iPhone to an Apple Store for repair.

Another staffer, secretary Dorene Browne-Louis, 45, is accused of covering up last year's scandal.

According to the government:

The indictment alleges that, during the course of his employment, McCullum offered in March 2016 to assist the House member in repairing the member's malfunctioning, password-protected cellular iPhone by taking the device to a local Apple store. According to the indictment, the House member provided McCullum with the device solely to have the iPhone repaired. McCullum was not given permission to take, copy, or distribute any of the contents of the iPhone. The iPhone contained the private, nude images and videos. (PDF)

Federal prosecutors said that "McCullum also sent text messages to Browne-Louis alerting her to his activities." Browne-Louis is accused of deleting those messages and is charged with making "false, incomplete, and misleading statements" to a grand jury and investigators.

Browne-Louis pleaded not guilty to the accusations on Thursday and remains out of jail. No court date has been set for McCullum. The 35-year-old McCullum is a former reality TV star known as "Pretty" on VH1's I love New York.

Source: ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday July 19 2017, @03:19AM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday July 19 2017, @03:19AM (#541301)

    So the article goes out of the way to note the phone was password protected and want to leave the impression she didn't provide the staffer with the password but won't actually SAY it for some reason. If she didn't provide it, it really is a tech story since it blows the holy hell out of Apple's insistence that you can't get into a locked iPhone, since a non law enforcement, non hacker normal person apparently accomplished the deed; but if she did it is purely a political / crime story and not a tech story. As usual, the 'tech' press prove as incompetent as the rest of the MSM.

    And seriously people, if you are even a D list celeb, get yer nekid pics off of your phone because it IS going to get loose. Shouldn't be that way, but that is the world we live in.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @04:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @04:24AM (#541324)

    [begin encrypted message] Special Social Justice Warrior Squad, jmorris Division: special report! We have nekid pics of jmorris! REPEAT, we have the nekid pics of jmorris! Intercepted subjects phone on way to the Microsoft Phone repair facility. One squad member in hospital, stable condition, another alright, but will never be the same. Another only caught a glimpse, reflected in a window, and still was out for half a day. Recommend aborting the whole operation, and deleting pics, because we fight for Social Justice, and these photos are, um, disturbing. And unjust. [end encrypted message]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @01:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @01:29PM (#541412)

      Huh, that's weird. That message was already decrypted by the time I requested this page. I don't remember ever having a Special Social Justice Warrior Squad secret decoder ring....