This sounds about right for 2021.
Steve Waithe was a 3-time All-American track athlete at Penn State before going into coaching. He had stints at Tennessee and Northeastern before quietly being fired by the latter in 2019.
He has much bigger issues now that he has been arrested in a nude photos scam that he had to know would never work long term.
The scam went as followed.
Waithe would use his athletes’ phones to record them during races and events. While pretending to record or between a lull in the action he would go through their photo album and send their nudes to his phone. He would then contact them on Instagram and say those nudes have been uploaded online and charged them to get them erased from the internet. He would also ask them to send any other nudes to make sure they didn’t end up on the internet.
He almost got away but he is an idiot, so this is how he got caught.
The alleged cyberstalking and wire fraud began in February 2020, from an Instagram account “anon.4887,” which according to the government was “created and/or controlled by Waithe. For example, on February 14, 2020, Instagram sent a notification email regarding the anon.4887 Instagram account to one of Waithe’s Google email addresses.”
That’s where the gross begins to blend with the stupid, which continues with this allegation: “Approximately fifteen minutes prior to the first contact from the privacyprotector Instagram account to Victim 2, Instagram sent an email to one of Waithe’s Google email addresses which read, ‘Welcome to Instagram, privacyprotector.’”
He is facing charges of wire fraud and cyberstalking.
The FEDs found over 300 images and videos in his phone.
In a separate scam, he pretending to be a white woman doing a body development study to get women to send his photos.
Flip the page for a video that breaks down even further Waithe’s scam.