Scott Edward Sippola and Allison Lenore Coss have been named in a federal investigation involving a television and Broadway actor.
MARQUETTE COUNTY -- A Marquette man and woman are the target of a criminal complaint for Internet extortion.
Scott Edward Sippola and Allison Lenore Coss have been named in a federal investigation involving a television and Broadway actor. The name of the celebrity is not in the federal court documents, but according to publications, the person in the files, referred to as "Mr. X," is actor John Stamos.
Sippola and Coss are both charged with intent to extort money from a person, transmitted in interstate commerce, a communication containing a threat to injure the reputation of another person.
The complaint states that on or about November 28 of this year, Mr. X contacted the FBI office in Nashville saying he was the subject of a scheme to extort money from him. In the complaint, it says Mr. X was vacationing in Florida in 2004 and met Allison Coss and a friend he knew as 'Qynn'.
Mr. X attended a party with them, and photographs were taken during the party.
Through a series of emails with a 'Brian L," the complaint says a threat was made to sell the pictures to the media if Mr. X did not buy them for $680,000.
Last Wednesday, the FBI set up a meeting with 'Brian L' at Sawyer International Airport in the area of Boreal Aviation to exchange the money. Coss and Sippola were in a pick-up truck in the area of the meeting. They were both arrested.
They have a preliminary hearing in Federal District Court set for December 17 in Marquette.
Read the entire court document here.
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