Former state official charged after ex-neighbor's number turns up on adult Web sites

A former assistant state attorney general has been charged with a misdemeanor after he allegedly posted the name and phone number of a former neighbor on adult Web sites.

Jonathan Milstein, 41, was charged Tuesday in King County Superior Court with a single count of telephone harassment.

Beginning on Dec. 25, 2006, the victim began receiving dozens of phone calls from people looking for group sex and other sexual encounters after believing they had arranged to meet the victim through two adult Web sites, Fling and Adult Friend Finder, according to court charging papers.

Since then, the woman had 30 or 40 similar calls from people looking for sex — some calls from as far away as Florida, New York and California, court charging papers said. All of the people who called the Seattle woman believed they had talked with her on an adult Web site and had arranged to meet for sex, court papers said.

The FBI was able to link the postings to Milstein's Comcast account at home, court papers said.

When authorities searched Milstein's Kirkland home on July 31, 2008, they found there had been a "conscious effort to eliminate records of current Internet use on the laptop," charging papers said. Investigators also found evidence that someone at the home had logged onto Adult Friend Finder at least 138 times.

Investigators do not believe Milstein's wife logged onto Adult Friend Finder, charging papers said.

Milstein resigned from the state Attorney General's Office on Monday, said agency spokesman Dan Sytman. Milstein had been an attorney for the Department of Social and Health Services, handling child-abuse and neglect cases, Sytman said.

Milstein will be arraigned Aug. 5.

Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or jensullivan@seattletimes.com