A New York state prosecutor has charged a former close associate of Jared Kushner with cyberstalking less than a year after President Donald Trump gave him a federal pardon for related alleged offenses.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement at the time that "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."Trump pardonedThe president's pardon power, however, does not extend to state crimes.
State prosecutors say that as Kurson and his wife were headed for divorce, he placed spyware on her computer to obtain passwords to her Gmail and Facebook accounts from September 2015 to March 2016. Kurson is alleged to have monitored his wife's communications while at the Observer's offices. In a statement Wednesday, Vance said, "We will not accept presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for the well-connected in New York," adding, "Kurson launched a campaign of cybercrime, manipulation, and abuse from his perch at the New York Observer and now the people of New York will hold him accountable.
At the time of the federal charges, Kurson's attorney, Marc Mukasey, said, "The conduct alleged is hardly worthy of a federal criminal prosecution." Mukasey confirmed Wednesday that he is representing Kurson in the state case but said he is not commenting at this time. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting
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