A federal grand jury in Nashville indicted a former Assistant U.S. Attorney on August 19. The underlying criminal complaint — filed below seal on July 30 and unsealed Thursday claims former federal prosecutor Alexander Strohmeyer threatened to homicide his former bosses on the workplace and made threats towards their youngsters. And there are screenshots.
Seamus Hughes & Peter Beck flagged this case in in the present day’s Court Watch round up. Strohmeyer was terminated from the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace on or about August 8, 2024, after a few yr within the Basic Crimes and White Collar items, the place, per his current Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP bio, he dealt with violent crime, firearms, and narcotics circumstances. On July 22, 2026, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace obtained a warrant charging him below Tennessee’s intimate digital depictions statute. The Marshals Service adopted the warrant the following day, opened a fugitive investigation, and arrested him in Colorado on August 3, the place he had landed on the Boulder agency doing advanced business litigation.
And by intimate digital descriptions, we imply…
STROHMEYER submitted photographs of the sufferer in a bikini to an Synthetic Intelligence platform and created a video and/or photographs depicting the sufferer’s nude physique with out her consent. STROHMEYER acknowledged through digital communications to the sufferer that he had mentioned video and/or photographs and that he would use the video and/or photographs by sending it out and destroying the sufferer’s fame.
“If solely I had been like linked to the underworld or one thing and will function untraced,” a chat log included within the grievance states. Bro, you don’t even must be linked to take Stringer Bell’s advice and never create a written file of legal exercise.
Sadly, this wasn’t the extent of the alleged wrongdoing:
In abstract, STROHMEYER is accused within the state case of sending the sufferer a number of and threatening textual content messages over a time period. Amongst different issues, the digital communications acknowledged to the sufferer her youngsters “weren’t off the desk.” The sufferer took this to
imply the lives of her youngsters had been being threatened. Moreover, STROHMEYER acknowledged he may spoil the sufferer’s life with “the press of a button or a modded AR-15 set off.”
The chat log included within the grievance define much more threats.
Congratulations to OpenAI, who can add this to the slide deck touting its guardrails.
The texts recognized on this case — speaking about legal gangs, AR-15s, and poisoning youngsters — appear genuinely disturbing. Then again, he didn’t ship a picture of some random seashells, so who can actually say if it is a actual menace?
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