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Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol police after receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaws handling of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epsteins lenient work release program, the Miami Herald has learned.
In a statement, the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office said it had no knowledge of anyone trying to threaten or pressure Book.
Nor has PBSO made any effort to access her phone or emails as alleged on a salacious website run by a disgruntled former employee, the statement said.
The website is tied to a former Palm Beach sheriffs deputy who defected to Russia after starting the blog that claims it is dedicated to exposing corruption in the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office. The former deputy, John Dougan, fled to Moscow in 2016 following an FBI raid on his Palm Beach home that he claims was politically motivated
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233102457.html#storylink=cpy
And this:
Reporter plagued with weird activity after Jeffrey Epstein bust
Julie K. Brown, whose Miami Herald reporting led to Jeffrey Epsteins latest charges, says shes noticed eerie activity since the news broke.
Nothing has happened yet, she tells InStyle of any direct intimidation.
But the one thing Ive noticed is that there is definitely something weird going on with my phones and my computer. Ive been getting incessant FaceTime calls, one after another, from different numbers. Im talking millions. I answered only one. I hope that means they didnt hack in
I thought, Who are you? Why are you doing this?
https://pagesix.com/2019/07/25/reporter-plagued-with-weird-activity-after-jeffrey-epstein-bust/
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(33,349 posts)Me.
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(33,349 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)The perpetrator claimed to be stealing the data from county networks from Miami to Ft. Lauderdale. He called himself БадВолф, or BadVolf.
Little was known about BadVolf. In press interviews and public posts he claimed to be a government IT worker in Moscow with an interest in exposing police corruption. On the other hand, a lot was known about the owner of the website where the data appeared. He was a disgruntled ex-cop named John Mark Dougan who for years had been waging a relentless campaign against his former employer, the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office.
Dougan had resigned from the sheriffs office in 2009 after nearly four years in a police cruiser. Since then hed been many things to many people. Its fair to say he was a whistle-blower who used firsthand knowledge, inside sources and public records laws to expose violence and scandal inside the department. He was also a tech-savvy trickster afflicting his enemies with a plague of social engineering attacks. One sheriffs official carried on an intimate 10-day telephonic flirtation with a woman who turned out to be Dougan using a voice changer. Another was scorched with accusations linking him to a white supremacist group, reported from a fake news site so convincing that the legitimate press picked up the false story.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fugitive-cop-says-hes-behind-the-dnc-leaks-its-his-latest-hoax
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(35,454 posts)and a sexual abuser to boot.