Orange-Osceola County State Attorney Jeff Ashton admitted in a press conference Sunday, that he did sign up on the cheating website Ashley Madison, but didn’t have an affair.
Ashton, who said he was curious and signed up on the website, reportedly asked for forgiveness for his poor judgement. He said he won’t resign his post.
On Saturday, the East Orlando Post published a report indicating that Ashton could have had two accounts with website from July 2013 to February 2015. According to the news site, the accounts associated with Ashton’s name were traced back using an Internet IP address linked to the Ninth Judicial Circuit, the office in which Ashton works.
Ashton shot to national prominence when he prosecuted the high-profile murder case against Casey Anthony, who was acquitted in 2011. The veteran prosecutor is married and has six children.
Ashley Madison, the extramarital affair website was hacked last month and data released last week of 39 million of its members, including usernames, messages and email and home addresses.
Local 6 reported that Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs has requested the Information Systems and Services to conduct a review of the database to ensure that no employee has used taxpayer time or resources to access the extramarital affair website.
According to the Associated Press, hundreds of email addresses involved in the hack are linked to government workers in Canada, as well as members of the military and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
