Feds ask for 30 month sentence for Savader

Anthony Oreilly

Federal prosecutors have recommended a 30-month prison sentence for Great Neck native and former Mitt Romney intern Adam Savader, who pleaded guilty in November to cyberstalking and extortion charges, according to the Associated Press. 

Savader pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit in November to threatening several women that he would release nude photographs of them, unless they sent him additional ones. 

Victims resided in Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Long Island, according to an April 2013 FBI press release.

Savader was due back in federal court Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. 

Savader was charged with internet extortion and cyber stalking after the FBI took him into custody at his family’s Hutchison Court home in Great Neck Gardens last year.

The FBI alleged that over the course of 10 months beginning in May 2012, Savader sent anonymous text messages to 15 women, threatening to release nude pictures of the women unless they sent him additional naked photographs. 

The investigation began when the first victim, a college student in Michigan and Great Neck native, told local police that she had received text messages starting on Sept. 30, 2012 demanding nude pictures and threatening to send naked photographs of the victim to her friends and family.

Savader allegedly identified himself as ‘John Smith’ in the text messages to the Great Neck native, which the victim turned over to local police.

“I swear on all that is holy. If you [expletive] with me again I will send these to your parents. I have no problem sending them to ur [sic] parents, friends and sorority sisters unless you cooperate by answering me,” Savader allegedly texted to one victim.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court alleged that Savader sent the victim a link to nude photographs of herself on an image-sharing Web site. The victim told police that those images had been stored in her personal e-mail account.

Savader’s attorney Michael Shosnick told the New York Daily News last year “I’ve known Adam his entire life and he has never behaved in a way that would lead me to believe these allegations are true.”

Savader’s internet presence showed a man fast on the rise in conservative circles.

His Twitter account, which has more than 17,000 followers, identified him as formerly Paul Ryan’s sole intern for the 2012 presidential campaign and a former Newt Gingrich campaign staffer. Savader’s Facebook page contained pictures of the young man, clean cut and wearing glasses, posing with Ryan, Romney and Gingrich.

The messages, which included invasive personal questions, continued through November. 

The detective obtained the phone number linked to the anonymous Google Voice account used to send the messages via court order, and traced the number to a cell phone registered at Savader’s family home in Great Neck, according to the criminal complaint.

The criminal complaint said that further investigation identified 14 other potential victims, including students at George Washington University which he attended and former high school classmates of Savader’s.

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