Local Mass. campaign says website targeted in anti-Semitic, racist CyberAttack

Revere candidate target of cyber attack
AG Coakley investigating offensive posts
By Shelley Murphy
Globe Staff / April 18, 2010


Shortly after Corey Abrams announced last month that he was running for a seat on the Revere City Council, a caller threatened to post pornography on a website he had created and called coreyabrams.com — unless the candidate paid him for the domain name.

Abrams, a married father of four, refused and within days graphic pornographic images appeared on the website, according to his campaign manager.

Last week, anti-Semitic and racist postings appeared on the site, including a doctored photograph of Abrams wearing a Star of David, which Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

The cyber attacks on Abrams have turned a barely publicized campaign for the Ward One seat into a criminal investigation and brought condemnation from local leaders.

Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office is investigating allegations of extortion and civil rights violations, according to George Rotondo Jr., a four-term Revere city councilor, and Kerri Abrams Rampelberg, who is Abrams’s sister and campaign manager.

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"The hatemongers just go underground but never leave town"Who ever made those hateful statements should leave town.