Maegan Rees and Taylor Swift in a photoshopped MAGA hat.
Maegan Rees and Taylor Swift in a photoshopped MAGA hat.
In an indictment filed under seal, an FBI agent with local roots, Maegan Rees, is going after a social media influencer for allegedly influencing voters through misleading Tweets and memes during the 2016 election.
Rees, 33, is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a graduate of Spring-Ford Senior High School. She played lacrosse at St. Joseph’s University.
Rees filed the 13-page indictment under seal against a Twitter user who used variations of the name “Ricky Vaughn” for the fictional Cleveland Indians pitcher depicted by Charlie Sheen in the film "Major League."
Journalist Michael Tracey called the indictment “honestly hilarious.”
“Democrats have only controlled the government for a week and pro-Trump online trolls are already being indicted for criminal ‘conspiracies’ involving the posting of memes on Twitter in 2016,” Tracey said on Twitter.
Douglas Mackey, alegedly posing as Vaughn, is being accused by Rees of utilizing Twitter to shape political opinions along with a group of others.
Tracey posted a photo of Taylor Swift with a Make America Great Again hat as an example of possible evidence of Mackey’s alleged crimes.
“Pretty sure part of the vast criminal "conspiracy" entailed tweeting fake images of Taylor Swift wearing a MAGA hat,” Tracey tweeted.
Rees has been registered as a Democrat in Washington, D.C. since 2012.
According to the Washington Post, Rees and Kaitlyn Bush, paid $578,000 in 2015 for a townhouse on Florida Ave. in Northeast D.C.
Rees told the Washington Post she is a member of a “lesbian drinking team.”
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