FBI: Great Neck Man Arrested in Alleged Nude Pics Internet Blackmail Sceme

A 21-year-old Great Neck man is facing five years in prison after being charged in a criminal complaint with Internet extortion and cyber stalking for allegedly using naked pictures of women as blackmail, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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, according to the affidavit.

Savader is a former Mitt Rommey campaign intern and a Newt Gingrich staffer, according the Huffington Post. 

The FBI says Savader allegedly sent some of the victims links to a photo-sharing website where nude pictures of the victims had been posted.

Authorities say, the case was brought to the attention of the FBI by detectives from the Ann Arbor Police Department in Michigan, 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 in Ann Arbor partnered with FBI agents to investigate the case and together identified 15 victims in Detroit; Washington, D.C.; and Long Island, according to the FBI.

Savader is currently in federal custody in New York awaiting removal to Michigan.