Washington, Apr. 24 (ANI): A former campaign intern for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been arrested and charged with cyber-stalking and blackmailing young women online.
Authorities said Adam Savader, 21, was arrested from his home in his Great Neck, L.I., home on Tuesday by FBI agents.
According to the New York Daily News, Savader is a political science student at SUNY Farmingdale who’s interned for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Romney.
He has been charged with illegally obtaining nude pictures of 15 women and threatening to make them public unless the women sent him more naked pictures of themselves.
He preyed on women from Michigan, Washington, D.C., and Long Island many of whom he knew from high school.
In one instance, the criminal complaint said, Savader threatened to send naked pictures of one of his victims to the Republican National Committee if she didn’t comply with his demands.
According to the report, Savader appeared before Magistrate Arlene Lindsay in Long Island Federal Court and she ordered him held pending a bail hearing Friday.
He will be prosecuted in Michigan, authorities said, where the first case was reported.
If convicted, Savader faces up to five years in jail. (ANI)