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Within the wake of his resignation, Petraeus hired influential attorney Robert B. Barnett to represent him. The rape cost was prosecuted at the identical time as Hetherington's custody case, and the divorce court docket froze his property so he was unable to rent an legal professional or get out of jail on bond. Although the sending of the emails was deemed to be inadequate grounds for a criminal charge, the FBI referred to as Broadwell in for questioning, at which time she admitted to the affair with Petraeus. Petraeus reportedly ended the affair within the summer of 2012, across the time that he discovered that Broadwell had been sending harassing emails to a longstanding family good friend of the Petraeuses, Jill Kelley. In May 2012, Kelley contacted a local FBI investigator whom she knew, Frederick W. Humphries II, to complain about being cyberstalked. Frederick Ward Humphries II (born 1965), the FBI agent who started the investigation, was a friend of Jill Kelley. The emails reportedly indicated that Broadwell suspected Kelley of beginning an affair with General David Petraeus, who was a pal of Kelley's. He was admonished by supervisors who thought he was attempting to improperly insert himself into the investigation when in late October 2012, fearing that the case was being stalled, he contacted Representative Dave Reichert, a Republican from Washington State, the place Humphries had once been stationed, to inform him of the case. |
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