2016, that is when somebody hacked sherry s e-mail account and deleted thousands of e-mails. there s already a guy in prison because of his apparent effort to trick anti-trump republicans to give up their information about efforts against trump during the campaign. while that guy is in prison, one of those anti-trump activists gets hacked as well. unless the guy had unsupervised federal prison time with a computer, that timing implies that somebody else besides that imprisoned convicted con man might have been in on this concerted effort to hack and attack anti-trump activists within the republican party. now, publicly at the time, sherry jacobis said she believed allies of trump and his campaign were behind that campaign. she reached out to the fbi, the fbi s cyber division, to ask them to investigate this hacking of her inbox in the middle of a presidential campaign. that was two years ago.
there s already a guy in prison because of his apparent effort to trick anti-trump republicans to giving up information about their efforts against trump during the campaign. while that guy is in prison, one of those anti-trump activists gets hacked, as well? unless the guy had unsupervised federal prison time with a computer, that timing implies that somebody else besides that imprisoned convicted con man might have been in on this concerted effort to hack and attack anti-trump activists within the republican party. now, publicly at the time, sherry jacobis said she believed allies of trump and his campaign were behind that hack. not publicly at the time, she reached out to the fbi. the fbi cyber division, to ask them to please investigate this hacking of her inbox in the middle of a presidential campaign. that was two years ago. and since then, we hadn t heard much from this really interesting case, until now.
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
and since then we haven t heard much from this interesting case, until now. i said this has a surprise ending. this is the surprise ending. now politico.com reports that this case, that this catfishing effort, and the hacking of one of them thereafter, this case has now become part of the robert mueller investigation. why is that? the fbi cyber division, prosecutors from the southern district of new york, have apparently referred this case to the special counsel s office, according to sherry jacobis herself who says that s what the fbi told her. she told politico that fbi agents and the bureau s cyber division informed her this month that they had excuse me, in september, they forwarded their investigation to mueller. it is not clear what led the
independent. independent. sherry, when you look at this situation, this is a giant news story that if there wasn t so much going on would be the top story, because the u.s. government and bob mueller alleged the russians were behind the hacking of democratic e-mail accounts which got a ton of attention. you are bringing to the fore the idea they were also targeting republicans, which is less known. do you know who hacked your e-mail? and how are you certain bob mueller is looking at this now? well, i was told the investigation started in the southern district of new york in the cyber division. before donald trump was elected, it was august two years ago when politico was doing a big, lengthy piece on catfishing, there was somebody looking to get information on me and other republicans, pretending to be a lawyer representing big republican donors. the catfishing of me began the day that i publicly confirmed