Tim Burke offers first public statement about FBI raid: ‘Finding and reporting on newsworthy content is not a crime’
"Finding and reporting on newsworthy content is not a crime, no matter who is embarrassed by the reporting,"
"Finding and reporting on newsworthy content is not a crime, no matter who is embarrassed by the reporting,"
"It will be demonstrated that Timothy never hacked anyone and that all the information he provided was accessible to the public."
Burke declined comment to the Tampa Bay Times about the report.
Burke's wife, Lynn Hurtak, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the search warrant executed on Monday was "solely related to my husband's work as a journalist."
Burke told the Times he wasn’t certain why the agents came to his house.
Burke was involved in some massive Deadspin stories, including the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax and the Sinclair local news montage.