to tell all about their anti-trump activism, including all their plans for their ant anti-trump super pac. so, it's already sort of a spy story. a fake persona, an effort to get information that would be helpful to opponents in that campaign. but then it got more dramatic. because after the whole fake e-mail buddy scam, one of the anti-trump republicans who had been targeted in that scam, also discovered that her e-mail had been hacked. her name is sherry jacobis. she may be a recognizable face to you. but after this catfishing campaign, targeting her and other anti-trump republicans, after that campaign ran through late 2015 and through the primaries into early 2016, she ended up reporting that catfishing effort to authorities. this fraud that seemed like an effort to get valuable political information from her and other people she knew under false pretenses. she reported it to federal authorities that spring, in the spring of 2016. federal prosecutors in new york