ANCHROAGE, Alaska โ A stunning tale of inappropriate behavior between a politician and a television anchor, death threats and nude photos culminated in a joint police and FBI investigation, the arrest of the journalist and the resignation of the mayor of Anchorage.
The caller threatened to kill Berkowitz, who is Jewish, and his wife, in a diatribe laced with racist insults.
โWhen he slided into my texts, he was so smooth with his little witty slogans and pictures,โ Athens told the newspaper.
Athens, a graduate of Seton Hall University in New Jersey, said she was feeling isolated in Alaska.
He served as a Democrat in the Alaska House of Representative from 1997 to 2006, serving the last two years as minority leader.