Jeff Bezos is set to meet with federal prosecutors in New York as the U.S. attorney’s office looks into Bezos’ claims that the Saudi government was involved in the hacking of his personal cell phone, CNN reported.
According to people familiar with the matter who spoke to CNN, the meeting could be as soon as this week. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are in the midst of negotiations with Bezos’ lawyers about gaining access to his personal electronic devices in order to review his private investigators’ claims that Bezos was hacked by the Saudi kingdom. After salacious text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a woman with whom he was having an affair, were published in the National Enquirer, Bezos launched his own private investigation into how the texts were obtained and leaked.
His investigators believe Saudi Arabia hacked his phone in retaliation for the Washington Post’s coverage of Saudi officials who murdered Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. Bezos owns the Post.
The Southern District of New York is investigating Bezos’ claims because it wants to determine whether American Media Inc, which owns the National Enquirer, broke an agreement it reached with prosecutors last year. In exchange for admitting that it was involved in a hush money agreement involving President Trump and a former Playboy model’s alleged affair, the company agreed to not commit any more crimes for three years.
I can say, unequivocally. that I don’t give a fuck about Bezos.
A Prime example of GOP ratfuckery.
But do you want to know if the Saudi’s hacked Bezos? Do you want to pass up a chance of knowing whether the Saudis are going after Bezos because of Khashoggi?
As for the litany of crimes the Saudi’s commit daily, hacking Bezos phone is pretty far down on the list.
Yes, but adds to the basis that SA is a bad actor. That they’re willing to go after someone in a foreign country with freedom of the press law as opposed to just going after someone on their soil. You can’t just let this stuff slide when they go after someone you don’t like.