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Paul Ryan Intern Adam Savader Arrested

Posted on | April 23, 2013 | 77 Comments

Adam Savader, a former intern for Paul Ryan, was arrested by the FBI and charged in a weird sexual extortion scheme:

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. . . .
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.

Via Adam Steinbaugh who explain the details:

[A] recently-unsealed complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan . . . alleges, essentially, that a New York man — Adam Paul Savader — used a variety of Google Voice numbers to text women under the monicker “John Smith.”  ”Smith” told the women that he had nude photos of them (or, in one victim’s case, her mother) and that he would post more online if they did not send more nude photos.  He allegedly threatened to send the photos to their family members, sorority sisters, and the Republican National Committee, telling one that everyone in “D.C” would see the nude photos.  The unidentified victims apparently attended the same college as Savader.
On Twitter, Adam Savader brags that he was “Formerly @PRyan’s sole intern on @MittRomney’s campaign and a @newtgingrich campaign staffer” and notes that his website is savader.com.  The whois registration for the site lists his abode as being the same Great Neck, NY address as the address affiliated with the IP address used to register many of the online accounts allegedly used in the sextortion plot.

Savader’s Twitter account has not yet been deleted.

UPDATE: Reading the complaint — and trust me, it’s a must-read — I’m wondering: Do all college girls now have naked photos online?

Hey, I could have a great future as a Republican intern . . .

UPDATE II: Welcome, Twitchy readers! It turns out, because I know everybody, I’m just one degree of separation from Adam Savader:

There is a lesson here about the perils of the digital age: Anything you put on the Web — even uploaded to private accounts — can be accessed, if someone with enough skills really wants to get to it bad enough. And naked pictures? Yeah, don’t do those. Ever. Because that boyfriend you’re sending them to may not be your boyfriend forever.

 


Category: Scandal, Sex

Comments

77 Responses to “Paul Ryan Intern Adam Savader Arrested”

  1. FoxIsForRetards
    April 24th, 2013 @ 3:35 pm

    truth hurts?

  2. Finrod Felagund
    April 24th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm

    You wouldn’t know truth if it was punching you in the face. Begone, troll.

  3. FoxIsForRetards
    April 24th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

    troll says WHAT?

  4. FoxIsForRetards
    April 24th, 2013 @ 4:49 pm

    all repiglikkklans are!

  5. Finrod Felagund
    April 24th, 2013 @ 4:54 pm

    Begone, lameass troll.

  6. Finrod Felagund
    April 24th, 2013 @ 4:56 pm

    This isn’t Talking Points Memo, fucko. Get your smelly hippie ass off our civilized site.

  7. Anonymoussimonsrocker
    April 24th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm

    I knew him from college, he used to text or Facebook me a lot even though I ignored him. Always wanted pictures. I just thought he was another horney virgin.

  8. jsn2
    April 24th, 2013 @ 7:50 pm

    He looks like Menendez, acts like Clinton, is stupid like Weiner.

  9. Jason Rahall
    April 24th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm

    Repression leads to strange behavior. Were the nude photos more expected to be more enjoyable to him because of the emotional harm inflicted? Otherwise, plenty of free porn on Internet.

  10. Matthew W
    April 24th, 2013 @ 8:56 pm

    Did this idiot not know that he could just google “naked chicks” and get all the free naked chick photos he could want?

  11. RayPrice
    April 24th, 2013 @ 9:05 pm

    He is part of a tribe that wallows in that sort of stuff.

  12. RayPrice
    April 24th, 2013 @ 9:06 pm

    His judge goes to his synagogue – oy vey!

  13. RayPrice
    April 24th, 2013 @ 9:07 pm

    Maybe Jewt Gingrichstein

  14. Bob Belvedere
    April 25th, 2013 @ 7:50 am

    Yeah…but he always got the babe.

  15. 1bulwetweft
    April 25th, 2013 @ 8:31 am

    Ban hammer please. We expect a higher class of troll around here.

    Ace would never put up with this shit…

  16. FoxIsForRetards
    April 25th, 2013 @ 9:40 am

    He’s a future david vitter in the making!

  17. glorrierose
    April 25th, 2013 @ 10:32 am

    Hard to tell, but I’ll assume you are being facetious with that statement.

    Regardless, it’s not about looking at “naked chicks.” It’s about exerting power over them by making them do something they don’t want to do.

  18. glorrierose
    April 25th, 2013 @ 10:33 am

    Umm…you realize, don’t you, that rape is not about sex, but about power? And that the point of this was not to look at “naked chicks,” which obviously he could do any time he wanted, but rather to engage in a virtual rape by forcing these women to do something they did not want to do? Do you get it now?

  19. glorrierose
    April 25th, 2013 @ 10:38 am

    See above:

    Miranda Kahn WarEagle82 • 21 hours ago

    they werent uploaded to the internet. they were taken on a phone, sent to a self-email address, and then adam hacked into the email. they were sent to NO ONE. get your facts straight.”

  20. glorrierose
    April 25th, 2013 @ 10:39 am

    If you don’t understand why a political intern committing multiple sex crimes is news, you are pretty pathetic.

  21. FoxIsForRetards
    April 25th, 2013 @ 12:31 pm

    So you approve of creepy repiglikklkan stalkers?

  22. Finrod Felagund
    April 25th, 2013 @ 3:38 pm

    So you approve of Teddy Kennedy leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate in his car? Two can play this game, troll.

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  26. FoxIsForRetards
    April 26th, 2013 @ 4:23 pm

    so you’re admitting you’re a TROLL!

  27. Finrod Felagund
    April 26th, 2013 @ 5:32 pm

    Wombat, can you please purge this reads-at-a-first-grade-level reject troll from TPM? He’s left way too many turds on the carpet already.