Posted on 12/02/2016 5:27:08 AM PST by Gamecock
A year ago, Tim and Claire Gautreaux walked into a car dealership in Grapevine to buy a new Prius. They say the car-buying process was what you'd expect: long and tedious.
But what happened behind the scenes is now the focus of a lawsuit against the dealership and a former sales director, who also faces criminal charges.
Police believe Matthew Luke Thomas, the car sales director, found nude photos of Claire Gautreaux on her husband's phone and forwarded them to an email address for a swingers' website.
Thomas, 44, is charged in Tarrant County with computer security breach, a class B misdemeanor. This week, the Gautreauxs filed suit against Thomas, Texas Toyota of Grapevine and Toyota Motor North America in a Dallas County court, alleging breach of contract, intrusion, negligence and public disclosure of private facts.
Tim Gautreaux, 29, is a pastor at Hope Fellowship in Frisco. His wife works in retail management. The couple went to Texas Toyota in January 2015.
Later, he learned that photos of his wife getting in and out of their bathtub — from what he described as a "private moment" — had been sent to an email address that appeared to be linked to a swingers' website and a Garland couple, the lawsuit says.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Hey, maybe it’ll work.
WOW! Do we need a car dealers behaving badly ping list?
I’ll do my best not to hold it against her.
So, how did the phone end up in the dealership’s possession?
It's the timeless art of seduction!
> Tim and Claire Gautreaux walked into a car dealership in
> Grapevine to buy a new Prius
That was their first mistake.
It’s in the article. The pastor’s financial records, of some sort, were on the phone. He gave the phone to the salesman to take to the finance guy to have a peek.
That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
I go by the rule that anything that I post online unless GPG encrypted or kept on a secure server may end up in the wrong hands. One has to wonder if they guy found a cache of account passwords on the iPhone too and sold them to hackers. The possibilities are endless.
Ah.. a pastor of the Jim Wallis variety?
To #8
“That’s his story and he’s sticking to it”
Rest assured the defense will subpoena every electronic device she ever had access to, and all public email accounts. They would be fools not to.
I’m wondering what HER story is.
Self inflicted injury.
It is impossible to protect idiots against themselves.
Yeh, everyone knows that as a pastor’s wife you have your husband keep the photos of you nude on his church office computer and not his phone.
< /S >
....not guilty
Aww Geez...
If you walk in asking to buy a Prius, it’s like announcing “I’m a sucker with money”
I see - super dumb move on his part for several reasons.
Yep I though everyone knew that.
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