A Florida woman the media claim was fired from her job and targeted with a police raid for refusing to help Republicans cover up Covid cases appears to have illegally hacked into a health care system, and was fired for not disclosing she had been arrested for stalking a student with revenge porn.
“Former Florida state health official Rebekah Jones tweeted a video of police raiding her home on Monday alleging they pointed guns at her and her kids, a detail that the footage doesn’t corroborate, before confiscating her tech hardware,” The Daily Caller reports. “The story quickly went viral with the video being viewed more than 8 million times and her tweet thread receiving more than 120,000 retweets.”
Jones claimed the raid was arranged by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, calling them his “Gestapo.” Jones was fired from her job last year, which she claims was because she refused to falsify Covid-19 case numbers to make the pandemic appear less serious. “This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly,” Jones said of the raid.
Mainstream media outlets like ABC News reported her claims without question, making it appear to millions she was an innocent woman targeted by Republicans.
In reality, Jones is a convicted criminal, and the raid was in response to evidence she was hacking into state health care systems.
“Our investigation began last month following a complaint by Florida Department of Health that a person illegally hacked into their emergency alert system,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen said in a statement. “As part of our investigation, FDLE agents served a search warrant this morning at the Centerville Court residence where Ms. Jones lives after determining the home was the location that the unauthorized message was sent from.”
As for Jones’ claim police pointed guns at her children, not only is that not backed up by video, showing police did not use weapons, but Jones engaged in a 20-minute standoff with law enforcement who first attempted to peacefully knock on her door.
It’s also not Jones’ first arrest. Jones falsely claims she was fired from her state job for refusing to “falsify” the number of Covid cases reported on a state database.
In reality, Jones was fired from her computer job for not notifying her employers she had been arrested on computer crimes charges.
Jones was previously an instructor at Florida State Unversity when she engaged in a sexual affair with a student. The married Jones became pregnant.
She then began stalking the student, sending him and his family a graphic 342-page description of their sexual encounters and of his genitals. She even created a revenge porn website where she posted 60 pages of sexually graphic texts.
FSU fired Jones in 2017 when she was arrested and charged with three counts of cyberstalking.
Jones did not disclose the arrest to her state employers, who fired her when they were made aware she had been charged with computer crimes.
In response to her firing Jones made up a story in which DeSantis ordered her fired for refusing to obey a non-existent order to cover up the state’s Covid cases. No evidence whatsoever exists for her claims.
While Jones repeatedly refers to herself as a “scientist” she is not a scientist. Her college degree is in geography and journalism and was employed by Florida as an information systems manager to run an online dashboard.
She continues to be interviewed by network news outlets as a “scientist” and “whistleblower” despite her claims being debunked.
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