Michael Mancil Brown, 34, has been charged with being the guy behind an extortion attempt last September on then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The scam involved an attempted shakedown for $1 million, paid in Bitcoins, in exchange for Romney and his wifes supposedly purloined tax returns. The extortionist popped a bunch of flash drives that allegedly contained copies of the tax returns in the mail and posted all about it on Pastebin, saying that he was ransoming the returns for a very Dr. Evil-ish $1million.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/07/02/romney-blackmail-scam-dr-evil-extortion-suspect-charged/