Mona Sedky on Prosecuting Sextortion
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Department of Justice Computer Crimes Prosecutor Mona Sedky discusses the sextortion cases she has prosecuted and the meaning and danger of this new kind of crime.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey podcast listeners, Ben Wittis here. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm not a big fan of trigger warnings, but this podcast contains some explicit material. |
| 0:38.5 | It also contains more significantly some very upsetting material related to sexual violence. |
| 0:44.2 | If that's going to be a problem for you, you should probably skip this episode. |
| 0:52.3 | I had actually sent my agent out to London to go image his workstation. |
| 0:59.9 | We thought he would be there working. |
| 1:03.2 | We had dispatched our lead case agent to the embassy to go do some investigation there. |
| 1:10.9 | He was going to go in at night when Mr. Ford wasn't at his workstation and he kept calling |
| 1:15.7 | me saying, the guy's not here. |
| 1:17.6 | He's not here. |
| 1:18.6 | We were like, where the heck is he? |
| 1:21.2 | They determined like after the second or third day that Mr. Ford was actually back here in |
| 1:26.5 | Atlanta visiting his family. |
| 1:28.8 | So we very quickly threw together an arrest, a complaint and indictment. |
| 1:35.2 | We had basically a one week window of opportunity to arrest him in the United States and we arrested |
| 1:41.1 | him as his family and he were leaving the airport in Atlanta. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the Law Fair Podcast June 24, 2016. |
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