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married tweets District Attorney angry after the family suggests exaggerated accusation contributed to his death

The husband of U.S. District Attorney involved in processing Aaron Swartz family has publicly criticized the activist accused of abetting suicide of his wife, amid allegations that the dispute has aggressive was driven by his desire for a test case.

Tom Dolan, a director of IBM married to Carmen Ortiz, used his Twitter account to attack the Swartz family, who died Friday. A tweet posted on his thread @ TomJDolan said. "Really incredible, his own obituary child to blame others for his death and make no mention of the offer of six months"

His comments, made three days after the death of Swartz drew outrage in social media. The account has been deleted.

Dolan asked on Twitter and, if necessary, Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for Ortiz, told the Guardian he had "no comment" to do right now.

Swartz, 26, who helped create Reddit, was accused of violating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer system to access academic articles from JSTOR digital library with the intention to make freely available.

His family has accused prosecutors and officials from MIT to contribute to his death by applying a series of harsh accusations by "an alleged crime had no victim." His death, and that critics have denounced as a charge longer range, have led to calls to amend the computer fraud and abuse and to stop such actions.

If he had been convicted of the charges, Swartz faces up to 35 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines, although it has been shown that the negotiations between the lawyers and prosecutors have included advocacy potential of six months in prison.

condemns prosecutors on the case against Swartz continued Tuesday. A petition to the Obama administration to revoke Ortiz has reached 28,188 signatures, beyond the 25,000 signatures needed for a critical response from the White House.

In July 2011, Ortiz said in a statement the case. "Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars, is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give. "

Well, said, "His reaction was a normal reaction to his post, is not unique to Steve said:" .. Well, we'll lock "I'm not saying Aaron did suicide. Aaron would have done anyway. I say they were aware of the risk, and were negligent. "
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Swartz said he had offered to accept a deferred prosecution or probation, so if he did it again he would serve time.

Marty Weinberg, who took Swartz good lawyer, told the Guardian that during the negotiations for a plea bargain, MIT has refused to take a position that could help his client.
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