John Mark Dugan ( December 15, 1976 , Wilmington , Delaware , USA ) is a former U.S. police officer who requested [1] political asylum in Russia in 2016.
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 Dugan in the USA, September 2016 | |
| Birth name | John Mark Dugan |
| Date of Birth | December 15, 1976 (42 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Wilmington , Delaware , USA |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | Information Technology Executive Director |
| Father | John Arthur Dugan |
| Mother | Susan Maria Young |
| Children | Aurelia Michel Dugan, born in 2007 Kelton Mark Dugan, born in 2009 |
| Autograph |  |
| Site | badvolf.com |
Biography
John Dugan, a former U.S. police officer who, according to the FBI, hacked and made publicly available information about 12,000 agents. In April 2016, he flew to Moscow, Russia, and received political asylum.
Dugan ran a website denouncing Sheriff Rick Bradshaw from Palm Beach County, Florida.
John Mark Dugan founded his PBSOtalk.org website in 2009. Anyone could anonymously post information about corruption and abuse of power by police officers. In 2012, he received information and evidence that the district sheriff was using taxpayer money to attract sponsors for his election campaign, for entertainment expenses, and for maintaining relations with organized criminal structures. [2] . After the Florida State Ethics Commission examined the complaint filed by Bradshaw, he was acquitted because "he did not know that his actions were in violation of the law." [3] . Shortly thereafter, Palm Beach County Deputy Chief filed a lawsuit against Dugan. [4]
At the same time, the commission recognized such actions as “incompatible with the proper performance of the sheriff’s duties” [5] . Shortly after the Ethics Commission considered the case, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to buy out PBSOtalk.com, Sheriff Bradshaw filed a complaint against Dugan [6] . The complaint concerned an electronic mailing list [7] on the day before the November 2012 election according to a poll of Palm Beach constituency from the BurtAaronson.com server owned by Dugan. The letter stated that BurtAaronson.com no longer supported Sheriff Bradshaw as a candidate, but preferred his rival to the race. The real Bert Aaronson, one of the county’s governors, insists that he was not aware of this newsletter at all. He accused Dugan of identity theft and tried to secure his arrest.
The office of the Palm Beach district attorney found that since Dugan owns this site, he has every right to use it, however, they called the newsletter “defiant behavior”. They further clarified that the laws do not change on the all-permissible open spaces of the Internet.
In 2015, Dugan received and posted on an audio recording site of conversations of a Palm Beach County detective with an unknown woman. The record reveals the targeted investigations and prosecutions of the political enemies of the sheriff, including Dugan, people who unflattering the sheriff [8] . The FBI, together with the Palm Beach County police, raided Dugan’s home upon the release of these audio files, believing they had been intercepted. Another reason for the raid specified in the warrant was the suspicion of hacking and the placement of thousands of names, addresses and phone numbers of police officers, judges and FBI agents, despite the fact that the hacking was not confirmed [9] .
According to the fame of John Mark himself, this was only an excuse to pick up his computers in an attempt to find out the sources of information and close his site.
After a raid on his home on March 14, 2016, Dugan decided to leave. After the raid, the FBI harassed him and his family. John Mark had an audio recording where the police planned his assassination, which is why he decided to leave the country. Escape took effort and a wig to escape. Since he was put on a travel ban, Dugan had to first go to Canada. In April, the 5th, he flew from Toronto to Istanbul and then to the final destination - Moscow.
Dugan rented a plane and flew to Canada without going through US customs. From Toronto, Dugan flew to Istanbul, where he made a transfer for a flight to Moscow [10] . John became the fifth American to seek political asylum in Russia [1] [4] [11] .
An anonymous source told Extra reporter Jose Lambiete that GoDaddy was shutting down Dugan’s website under pressure from law enforcement. The site was moved to Russian hosting [12] .
For 2017, John Dugan lived in Moscow [13] [14] .
In Russia, John Mark Dugan applied for political asylum and became the fourth American to receive him. After, in February 2017, he developed a unique computer desk and founded BadVolf. Production is located in Solnechnogorsk, forty kilometers from Moscow. [15]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 American asylum seeker in Russia: We have blackmail, corruption, and corrupt courts in the United States . JSC Publishing House "Komsomolskaya Pravda" . Pravda News (May 5, 2016). Date of treatment May 10, 2016.
- ↑ Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw chided for using tax money , The Palm Beach Post .
- ↑ Aaronson seeks investigation into faux email blasting Bradshaw ... , The Palm Beach Post .
- ↑ 1 2 Apostate. John Dugan fled to Russia from political persecution . Evening Moscow . Date of treatment May 10, 2016.
- ↑ Florida Sheriff's Internal Affairs Investigator Duped Into Revealing All on Secretly Recorded Conversations With Random Woman He'd Never Met , PINAC News .
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE - Secret Recordings of Palm Beach County Sheriff's Detective Reveal Harassment, Computer Hacking, Investigations Into PBSO Critics And Their Families. . . MIAMI FBI LOOKING INTO IT! , Gossip Extra .
- ↑ Deputy who said he went after Bradshaw's enemies investigated , The Palm Beach Post .
- ↑ Hacker Accessed Email of Palm Beach Sheriff's Office Investigator Accused of Surveilling Journalists , Gossip Extra . Archived on October 26, 2016.
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE - FBI Agents Raid PBSO Critic Mark Dougan's House ... Search For Evidence of Hacking, Computer Crimes! , Gossip Extra .
- ↑ The unmasker of police crimes from America looks for rescue in Russia . om-msk.ru. Date of treatment November 6, 2016.
- ↑ An American policeman fled to Russia from the tyranny of the United States . REN TV (April 12, 2016). Date of treatment May 10, 2016.
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE - Did Broward State Attorney's Office Lie To GoDaddy in Anti-Sheriff Ric Bradshaw Website Shutdown? We're Just Trying To Protect Our Own, Spokesman Says! . Gossip Extra (April 15, 2016). Date of treatment November 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Everyone who talks about it becomes a criminal." A policeman from the United States spoke about the escape from the FBI to Russia (Russian) , RIA Novosti (20171004T1124 + 0300Z). Date of appeal May 31, 2018.
- ↑ John Mark Dougan | Journey of an American Exiled in Russia . johnmark.ru. Date of treatment November 6, 2016.
- ↑ The story of the “computer table” BadVolf, told by its designer (Russian) , PCMag Russian Edition (September 15, 2017). Date of treatment June 26, 2018.