{In this podcast, I speak with Kailin’s dad, who describes her arrest last week and her court appearance earlier today}
Kailin Wang was picked up by Orem Police Department officers on a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hold last Thursday, May 23, 2024.
She is now sitting in the Utah County Jail with no bond. She is charged with cyberstalking and making a false statement. Initially, the Utah County Jail did not list her charges.
Later on, charges were added.
Earlier today at 1PM Mountain Time, Kailin went in front of Magistrate Judge Daphne A. Oberg who held Kailin without bail.
This is the third story I have done on Kailin’s case, and the lawfare against her continues.
Her main crime is getting pregnant by the son of someone powerful: Christopher Thygesen whose father is Docusign Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Allan Thygesen.
Kailin’s son was born in 2019, and Christopher didn’t bother to show up for the birth. Before that, he pressured Kailin to abort the child.
Chris wasn’t even on the birth certificate when the Thygesen’s went to a San Francisco County (CA) Judge and got an ex-parte order granting Chris sole custody of the child he had never seen yet. This was an especially neat trick since Kailin and her son were living in Utah at the time.
Soon after, the Thygesen’s hired Doug Rappaport, a criminal defense attorney, to get Kailin charged with crimes.
I reached out to Docusign and to Rappaport, but neither responded for comment.
One of the things Kailin was charged with all the way back in 2019 was cyberstalking. After Chris refused for the first six months to have anything to do with his son, Kailin contacted several of his friends and colleagues to try and shame him into being a father.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office determined this to be cyberstalking.
If she’s already being charged with cyberstalking in San Francisco, why did the federal government charge her with the same offense?
I went looking for answers. The FBI, always a model of transparency, sent my query from the national office to the Utah office before I received this statement.
Your email was forwarded to me by our National Press Office. I'm the media rep for the Salt Lake City office.
Thanks for reaching out but we are unable to comment.
That clears things up. I reached out to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) but received no response as well.
The Sheriff’s Department at Utah County was more helpful.
“We know she is being held related to a case apparently being investigated by the FBI. Our records show the warrant is related to Interstate Cyberstalking; Fase Statement of Representation,” Sargeant Spencer Cannon, the Public Information Officer, told me.
He continued, “There is a legal warrant from a Judge to hold Kailin Wang. Put very simply, we are holding her within the parameters of the law.”
Sargeant Cannon also noted that the Utah County Jail is a jail not a prison.
That’s bad news for Kailin. Jails generally hold people for short periods of time, and as such, time there is much more difficult.
He also explained why a state jail is holding a federal prisoner, “We often hold inmates who have been arrested by federal authorities, or who have federal charges. We hold them as a courtesy to that federal agency. These stays are usually shorter in duration.”
Hopefully, that’s true in Kailin’s case, because it won’t be fun in jail.
There is no federal prison in Utah.
Kailin may have predicted her incarceration. On May 17, 2024, she sent an email to a friend with a screenshot of a legal filing which accuses her of cyberstalking and other offenses.
Writing mean things on-line, sharing their home address (which her father said is listed in their court file), and requesting a welfare check- this now amounts to cyberstalking and enough to be held without bail.
This isn’t new. Paul Boyne is sitting in a Connecticut jail for cyberstalking after he wrote mean blog posts. More on his story soon.
Lawfare is alive and well.
Kailin Wang is in a Utah jail