The Los Angeles Times reports today that a federal grand jury in Los Angeles has begun issuing subpoenas in a case involving a Missouri teenager, Megan Meier, who hanged herself after being rejected by a person she thought was a 16-year-old boy, “Josh Evans,” whom she had met on MySpace.  According to the Times, Josh Evans was actually Lori Drew, a neighbor who befriended Megan by pretending, online, to be 16-year-old Evans.

The LA Times story is here.

The Washington Post also has a long piece on this case in today’s paper. Here it is.

According to the Times, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in LA are considering charging Drew with defrauding MySpace by creating a false account. The LA U.S. attorney’s office is involved, according to the Times, because MySpace is headquartered in Beverly Hills.

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