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The FBI says that the men behind the disgraced GirlsDoPorn website were willing to go to extraordinary lengths to harass and intimidate 22 women who sued them for fraud and coercion. A judge awarded those women $13 million in January. Now one of the men, Matthew Wolfe, is in custody and facing criminal charges. Authorities believe another defendant, ringleader Michael Pratt, has fled the country.

Wolfe is asking to be let out on bail. On Thursday, Motherboard published an FBI document arguing against his motion. It details just how far the men were willing to go to retaliate against the women.

The FBI arrested Wolfe in October and searched the offices of GirlsDoPorn the next day. The April 22 document, which came to light this week, describes the result of that search.

"Agents located a chart listing countries that do not extradite individuals to the United States," US Attorney Robert Brewer wrote. "The chart indicated whether each country had on-line banking and whether citizens of New Zealand, like defendant, could obtain a visa."

Brewer says that the defendant's fiancée has a wealthy family and could access funds to assist in fleeing to New Zealand—and then to a third country with no US extradition treaty.

“22 Whores”

Brewer also says that FBI agents "found evidence of efforts to harass and intimidate the victims and their attorneys."

They found a video script called "22 Whores + 5 Shady Lawyers VS GirlsDoPorn." The subheading read "Share and spread this video as far and wide as possible."

The typo-laden script listed the names of the 22 women who sued the porn site. "Put each girls [sic] full name and location on screen before rolling there [sic] shit," the script said—presumably "their shit" here is footage from their pornographic videos.

The video was supposed to end with the text "These retarded lawyers and disquisting [sic] whores wasted 3 years of everyones [sic] time. Ask yourself how viral these videos will go now if nobody is controlling them… Good job."

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