Matthew Key, Journalist - How to Help
by Susan Basko, esq.
Matthew Keys is a journalist, age 29, and he faces immediate imprisonment for allegedly sharing a password to a news website. A different person used the password to make a few funny changes to the wording on a news story. This prankish funny wording was up on the news website for a half hour. Matthew was charged with big crimes under the CFAA and convicted and sentenced to 2 years in prison. The case is being appealed, but they say they will make him to go prison anyway. He desperately NEEDS your help immediately. On Twitter: @MatthewKeysLive
HOW TO HELP in 3 EASY STEPS:
Write an email to President Obama on the handy White House contact form.
2. In the upper right hand corner, click on: CONTACT US
3. Fill out the form. Use your real name and email address, so they can reply.
Then write your email and press SEND.
HOW TO FILL OUT THE FORM:
Who would you like to contact? President Obama
(I also sent mine to Vice President and First Lady)
Subject? Scoll Down to: Help With an Agency - JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
IMPORTANT: Include this info in your email so they know who/what you are talking about:
RE: USA vs Matthew Keys, Eastern District of California, Sacramento,
D.C. No. 2:13-cr-00082
* * * * WHAT I WROTE IN MY EMAIL TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:
Feel free to use any of this in your own email. Be sure to include the info giving Matthew's name, court location, and case number:
RE: USA vs Matthew Keys, Eastern District of California, Sacramento,
D.C. No. 2:13-cr-00082
(^^ be sure to include the above info so they know who/what you are talking about.)
Dear Mr. President,
Matthew Keys is a young and very excellent journalist who has been breaking important news stories for at least 5 years. An overzealous prosecutor in California colluded with some shady news corporation executives to charge Matthew Keys with big crimes in response to a questionable, very very minor prank that Keys says he was not involved in. Even if he were involved, it is extremely minor and should not have resulted in a felony prosecution. Matthew Keys faces IMMEDIATE imprisonment. We ask you to prevent this.
This young man does not belong in prison. Putting him in prison and even prosecuting him is chilling free speech, chilling freedom of the press, scaring intelligent young people, scaring journalists, and making me/ we/ many of us feel the Dept. of Justice is acting in a vindictive manner. Matthew Keys is a bright, ambitious journalist who belongs covering the breaking news, not being locked into prison to make a prosecutor's conviction quota.
Matthew Keys has worked as:
Former Managing Editor, North America at Grasswire
Former Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters
Former Online News at KGO-TV
Former Interactive & Mobile Director at Tribune Company
Former Online News Producer at Tribune Company
Former Promotional Intern at CBS Radio
PLEASE HELP!!! -- Susan Basko, esq
Matthew Keys talking about his case.
