A federal grand jury in Nashville indicted a former Assistant U.S. Attorney on August 19. The underlying criminal complaint — filed under seal on July 30 and unsealed Thursday claims former federal prosecutor Alexander Strohmeyer threatened to murder his former bosses at the office and made threats against their kids. And there are screenshots.
Seamus Hughes & Peter Beck flagged this case in today’s Court Watch round up. Strohmeyer was terminated from the U.S. Attorney’s Office on or about August 8, 2024, after about a year in the General Crimes and White Collar units, where, per his current Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP bio, he handled violent crime, firearms, and narcotics cases. On July 22, 2026, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant charging him under Tennessee’s intimate digital depictions statute. The Marshals Service adopted the warrant the next day, opened a fugitive investigation, and arrested him in Colorado on August 3, where he had landed at the Boulder firm doing complex commercial litigation.
And by intimate digital descriptions, we mean…
STROHMEYER submitted photos of the victim in a bikini to an Artificial Intelligence platform and created a video and/or images depicting the victim’s nude body without her consent. STROHMEYER stated via electronic communications to the victim that he had said video and/or images and that he would use the video and/or images by sending it out and destroying the victim’s reputation.
“If only I were like connected to the underworld or something and could operate untraced,” a chat log included in the complaint states. Bro, you don’t even need to be connected to take Stringer Bell’s advice and not create a written record of criminal activity.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the extent of the alleged wrongdoing:
In summary, STROHMEYER is accused in the state case of sending the victim multiple and threatening text messages over a period of time. Among other things, the electronic communications stated to the victim her children “were not off the table.” The victim took this to
mean the lives of her children were being threatened. Additionally, STROHMEYER stated he could ruin the victim’s life with “the press of a button or a modded AR-15 trigger.”
The chat log included in the complaint outline even more threats.
Congratulations to OpenAI, who can add this to the slide deck touting its guardrails.
The texts identified in this case — talking about criminal gangs, AR-15s, and poisoning children — seem genuinely disturbing. On the other hand, he did not send a picture of some random seashells, so who can really say if this is a real threat?
#187: The Justice Department Owns a Bar [Court Watch]
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