Mar a Lago, child porn & Russia

[steff]

A U.S. Army officer formerly in charge of all White House communications at Mar-a-Lago was sentenced to three years of probation on Friday after he made false statements to a federal agent during a child pornography investigation.

Richard Ciccarella, who worked at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach resort, became a target of an investigation after he uploaded topless photos of a young relative to a seedy Russian website between 2017 and 2018, according to court documents.

Ciccarella, who worked as a non-commissioned officer in charge of communications at Mar-a-Lago, used the username RICH25N to upload suspicious photographs and folders to the website iMGSRC.RU between November 2017 and February 2018 according to court documents.

Ciccarella’s use of a Russian website to upload sensitive images while working in close contact with Trump’s resort raised concerns among security experts. It marked the latest security breach at or involving Mar-a-Lago.

Peter Harrell, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former Obama administration State Department official, said Ciccarella’s case presented a “significant security risk” had U.S. authorities not discovered what Ciccarella was doing.

“There are a lot of people with access to classified information but if a foreign adversary became aware of this, clearly he becomes a huge blackmail target,” Harrell said.

The Winter White House is a far easier target for foreign intelligence gathering than its counterpart in Washington, D.C.

Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article235563497.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article235563497.html#storylink=cpy

[weltschmerz]

The POTUS should live in WH,  not low-security resorts.

That being said the Donald doesn't want to go slumming in public housing, recently vacated by a black family.