High-profile false rape threat fabricator also had gun menacing conviction

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-05-22 00:50

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'Meg Lanker-Simons, an award winning liberal student activist and talk show host at the University of Wyoming (UW), walked into a radio station in 2005 and threatened her former boss with a Glock 44 .40 caliber handgun, according to court documents.

Lanker-Simons, whose Tumblr blog won a 2012 Think Progress award, made national news again last month when police accused her of fabricating a high-profile rape threat against herself prepared to look as if it came from a conservative.

According to the 2006 affidavit on the firing, she walked into the office of her former employer and pointed the gun at the man who decided to fire her, who reported he was in “fear for his life.”
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Lanker-Simons “admitted to having (a) gun in (her) purse and pulling it out and waving it around (the) victim,” according to the affidavit.

She pled guilty and received six- years of probation. At the time, Lanker-Simons went by the name Meghan Michelena, according to the Laramie Boomerang.'

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