Sex, politics, and scandal – this one has it all!
According to this, a staffer for Rep. Stacey Plaskett from the US Virgin Islands (she’s a non-voting member of Congress) has been indicted for taking the nude photos of Plaskett had of her on her cell phone and distributing them online. The staffer, Juan R. McCullem, was supposed to be getting Plaskett’s cell phone fixed. Instead, he found the pictures and, after he left Plaskett’s office, decided that it would be a great idea to put them online for everyone to see –
In 2015, McCullem offered to take Plaskett’s broken iPhone to get it fixed at an Apple store. He was able to obtain “private, nude photos and videos,” from the device after she handed it over.
McCullem left the staff in July of 2016, and to get revenge on Plaskett, he posted the salacious content on the internet from anonymous Hotmail and Facebook accounts. He also encouraged others to spread the content to damage Plaskett.
While all of this happened in 2015 and 2016, McCullem was officially indicted by a grand jury on Thursday –
WHOA: Feds charge DC man with circulating private, nude images and video of US House Member and spouse
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 13, 2017
The grand jury also indicted his 45-year-old co-worker Dorene Browne-Louis on two counts of obstruction of justice for deleting text messages about McCullem’s tawdry actions.
McCullem faces five years in prison for two charges of cyberstalking, while Brown-Louis faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.
No matter what you’re job is or how upset you are with your boss, I’m not sure why you’d think that spreading naked pictures of said boss and boss’s spouse would be a good idea. Even if it weren’t illegal (and clearly it is), how would that help you get another job in the future?
Can’t you imagine the job interviews? Not to mention the phone calls a prospective employer would be making on your references.
“Tell me about Candidate X.” “Yeah – he sent nude pictures of me from my phone. Probably don’t want to hire the guy.”
Good luck on finding a new job, dude.