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August 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM

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Former assistant attorney general pleads guilty to harassing neighbor

Posted by Jennifer Sullivan

A former assistant state attorney general who posted the name and phone number of a former neighbor on adult Web sites pleaded guilty in King County District Court today to telephone harassment and was sentenced to community service.

Jonathan Milstein, 41, was charged with the misdemeanor on July 28 and resigned from the Attorney General's Office the day before. Milstein handled child-abuse and neglect cases as an attorney for the Department of Social and Health Services.

Milstein, of Kirkland, was sentenced to 30 days in jail, but jail time was suspended in exchange for 240 hours of community service.

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

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 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.

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