Because Foogy is No Fun: E.D.N.Y. (in October):
Individual Charged with Cyberstalking Three Victims:
Defendant Kenneth Kurson’s Alleged Harassment of His Victims Involved Repeated Visits to Their Workplace, Filing False Complaints with their Employer and Malicious Cyber Activity
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kenneth Kurson, also known as “Jayden Wagner” and “Eddie Train,” with stalking and harassing three individuals.
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As alleged in the complaint, between approximately November 2015 and December 2015, Kurson engaged in a pattern of stalking and harassment against three victims. As part of this pattern, Kurson used multiple aliases to file false complaints about two of the victims with their employer, post false negative reviews about one victim’s professional conduct on crowd-sourced review websites and made unsolicited contact with two of the victims. Kurson traveled on multiple occasions to the workplace of two of the victims, taking photographs and inquiring about one victim’s work schedule. During the investigation, the FBI gathered evidence that Kurson simultaneously engaged in a similar pattern of harassment against two other individuals. As a result of Kurson’s conduct, an employer of two of the victims hired a security guard.
“Kurson is alleged to have engaged in a disturbing pattern of retaliatory harassment that intimidated and alarmed several victims and their employer,” stated Acting United States Attorney DuCharme. “This Office is committed to protecting victims from malicious cyberstalking activity and apprehending criminals who try to rely on Internet anonymity to facilitate their crimes.”
“As alleged, Kurson bullied his victims by attacking their character online and attempted to intimidate them by showing up at their place of employment without a valid reason. The shadows of cyberspace may have provided him with some cover, but once his identity was revealed, he no longer had the benefit of a virtual retreat,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney.
The (since pardoned)
federal charges:
In or about and between November 2015 and December 2015, both dates being approximate and inclusive, within the Eastern District of New York and elsewhere, the defendant KENNETH KURSON, also known as “Jayden Wagner” and “Eddie Train,” with the intent to harass, intimidate and place under surveillance with intent to harass and intimidate, did knowingly and intentionally use the mail, an interactive computer service, an electronic communication service, an electronic communication system of interstate commerce and a facility of interstate commerce to engage in a course of conduct that caused, attempted to cause and would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to one or more individuals, to wit: Individual No. 1, Individual No. 2 and Individual No. 3. (Title 18, United States Code, Section 2261A(2)(B) and 2261(b)(5).)
I.e., criminal harassment of his ex-'s supporters. Cf. the (pending)
state charges:
1 PL 156.10(1): Computer Trespass
2 PL 250.05: Eavesdropping
At the times and places described below in the County and State of New York, the defendant, without authorization, knowingly used a computer or computer service with an intent to commit and further the commission of a felony; the defendant unlawfully engaged in wiretapping or mechanical overhearing of a conversation, or intercepting an electronic communication.
I.e., installed keystroke software on his ex-'s computer.
