A two-hour memorial service for Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz in Manhattan yesterday quickly turned into a blame fest.
“Prosecutors were hell-bent on ruining Aaron’s life — he just couldn’t take it another day,” Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the girlfriend of the troubled genius, told attendees in The Great Hall at Cooper Union.
Swartz, 26, committed suicide in his Brooklyn apartment on Jan. 11.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman also pushed for the passage of “Aaron’s Law,” legislation that would reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Others pointed fingers at the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts for, in their view, aggressively pursuing a case against Swartz for allegedly stealing online documents from MIT.