PAULA DEEN VICTIM OF EXTORTION ATTEMPT! TMZ is reporting the FBI just nabbed a dude who was threatening Paula Deen with leaking some damning docs!
The FBI arrested a man in New York this morning after he allegedly tried to extort $250,000 from Paula Deen … claiming he would release “true and damning” statements made by Deen unless she paid up.
According to a federal criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Georgia on June 24, Deen’s attorney went to the FBI after Deen received an email and follow up phone call from a man named Thomas Paculis.
The complaint claims Paculis threatened to go to the media with information he claimed with bring hardship and financial ruin to Deen.
Paculis was taken into custody today and will go before a judge in Savannah, GA on July 16.
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