FBI Completes Investigation Into Anchorage Mayor Accused of Posting Nude Photos to Underage Website

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FBI Completes Investigation Into Anchorage Mayor Accused of Posting Nude Photos to Underage Website

Maria Athens, the anchor of a combined FOX/ABC tv station who broke the news about the mayor’s purported criminal activity, has been arrested by local police after she got into an argument with the station’s manager, which ended with a physical altercation.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has completed an investigation of the mayor of the US city of Anchorage, who was accused of posting photos of his genitalia to an underage girls’ website. The investigation, conducted together with local police, revealed that there is no “immediate evidence to support a violation of federal law; however, the FBI Anchorage Field Office continues to monitor the situation”.

The story started on 9 October after Maria Athens, the anchor of a combined FOX/ABC tv station, posted a statement and a video on her Facebook page saying that Mayor Ethan Berkowitz “posted x rated photos on an underage girls website”. In her post, Athens, who promised to break the story on the TV station, cited “reliable sources”.

That same day the mayor’s office denied the allegations, saying:

The mayor’s office also said that it spoke with Athens’ employer, Scott Centers, who “emphatically disavowed” the woman’s claims.

On 10 October things turned wild after Maria Athens posted a photo of what she claims was the mayor’s nude backside. Two days later, on 12 October Ethan Berkowitz resigned and revealed that he had “a consensual, inappropriate messaging relationship” with Athens. Berkowitz, who is married, did not respond to questions as to why he didn’t acknowledge his relationship with Athens when his office released a statement calling the anchor “hostile and unwell”.

In response, Athens revealed that her relationship with Berkowitz started in 2016, but she declined to elaborate whether it became sexual.

The situation exacerbated after The Alaska Landmine obtained a voicemail Athens sent to Berkowitz, where the anchor calls Berkowitz a “pedophile” and threatens to kill him and his wife.

Athens reportedly sent the voicemail after she was arrested by police on October 9, the day she first made her claim about the mayor on her Facebook page. According to court documents, the woman trespassed into the studio after she was told she could not return there. Athens also had a fight with the TV station’s manager Scott Centers. The charging documents said she punched Centers in the face several times and hit him with her cellphone. She also hit the officer trying to arrest her and was placed in full restraints after trying to kick out a window of a police car.

Athens said she did not touch the officer and was “never in full restraints”. Her story on the TV station wasn’t aired.

Sourse: sputniknews.com

FBI Completes Investigation Into Anchorage Mayor Accused of Posting Nude Photos to Underage Website

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