Mouna's Story

Tasha Kaminsky Used Lies to Hurt Mouna and Others

Tasha Kaminsky does not limit her attacks to one person. Over a period spanning years, she has publicly accused elected officials, community organizations, activists, and individuals of bribery, corruption, complicity, and worse. She has lobbied politicians to take public positions based on her framing. She has encouraged the doxxing of a Jewish woman. And when confronted with her own words under oath, her response has been a consistent refusal to reckon with the record: “I don’t recall.”

The evidence shows that smear campaigns are not an exception in Tasha’s behavior. They are the rule. The targets change. The tactic does not.

The Campaign Against Congresswoman Cori Bush

Cori Bush is a well-respected Congresswoman and vocal survivor advocate who bravely told her own story of survival before Congress. Beginning in December 2017, Tasha waged a sustained campaign accusing Bush of accepting bribes and selling women, without a single piece of supporting evidence.

“Women Were Sold”

On December 5, 2017, Tasha published a public Facebook post in which she wrote: “women were sold. we were sold for gifts of $100, $1,600, and $2,700.”^[1] The post specifically referenced a $2,700 campaign contribution that Mouna had made to Cori Bush’s campaign, framing a lawful political donation as a bribe that purchased silence.^[2] Accusing a descendant of enslaved people of selling human beings, without any evidence, is racist.

Tasha did not make this accusation once and move on. Over the following year, she repeated and escalated the claim to at least seven different people across private messages and public posts, including telling Justine Collum that Bush “took money from him and said him being a rapist didn’t matter,”^[3] telling Niles Zee that “our heroes are hypocrites and the ppl who should help me would rather just take money from nick,”^[4] and telling Andrew Warshauer that Bush “could save a lot of people a lot of grief and shut a lot of that crap down fast.”^[5] In a November 27, 2018 public post, she wrote that progressive politicians and organizations “they hid evidence. they kept bribes. they refused to hold their peers accountable. they slandered me. they lied to me. they extorted me. they screamed at me.”^[6]

Adriane Norman publicly amplified the accusations, posting on Facebook: “She looked the other way to line her pockets!” and claiming she was told “Nick’s money was more important than my life and body.”^[7]

Lobbying Elected Officials

Tasha was not simply venting to friends. She was actively recruiting elected officials to take public positions against Mouna. On December 5, 2017, she reached out to then-Treasurer Tishaura Jones, telling her that “organizations and politicians have taken money from Nick and in return they have seemingly turned a blind eye” and asking her to use her credibility to demand public accountability.^[8] Jones offered to talk to State Representative Bruce Franks about issuing a joint public statement.^[9]

Tasha followed up persistently over the following weeks, on December 11, 19, and 26, pressing Jones and Franks to act.^[10] Based solely on Tasha’s framing, Jones speculated about “hush money.” Her own words were: “I’m making terrible assumptions.”^[11] This is how the accusations compounded. Tasha presented her narrative. Jones speculated further. The claims escalated without anyone having any evidence.

Tasha’s Deposition: No Evidence, No Recollection

When asked under oath whether she had direct evidence that Mouna intentionally bribed anyone, Tasha admitted she had none.^[12]

When asked whether she recalled publicly accusing Cori Bush of “selling women,” she said: “I do not recall.” When pressed, she acknowledged: “It’s possible.”^[13] Her own public Facebook posts containing those exact words are in evidence.

She also told Niles Zee: “i’m presently feeling very afraid of her,” referring to Bush.^[14] But when asked under oath whether she ever claimed she was afraid of Cori Bush, she flatly denied it: “No.”^[15] Her own produced documents directly contradict her sworn testimony.

Tasha also claimed that Cori Bush told her she was only doing this for attention.^[16] She never publicly apologized to Cori Bush, and she never offered any explanation for her accusations under oath.^[17]

Provable Lies Against Mouna

Tasha did not only attack public figures. She told specific, provable lies about Mouna.

The Order of Protection Reversal

Tasha told people she had been granted an order of protection against Mouna and that Mouna was not allowed within 500 feet of her.^[18] This was false. The court denied Tasha’s petition for an order of protection. The actual truth is the reverse: Mouna was granted an order of protection against Tasha.^[19]

Even more disturbing, Tasha testified that she believed the 500-foot restriction to be true, even though she could state no basis for that belief, and even knowing that the order she had requested had been denied.^[20] As the credibility page documents, on October 3, 2018, eleven months after the court denied her petition, she told Gabriela Szteinberg: “He knows he’s not allowed to come within 500 feet of me.”^[21] This is not a misunderstanding. She was present in court when the judge ruled against her.

This is victim-reversal: claiming she was the one who got the protective order allowed her to cast Mouna as the aggressor and excuse her own conduct.

The Tax Evasion Fabrication

In her deposition, Tasha stated that Mouna’s wealth was “through illegal means which is to say they are hiding wealth from the government and that makes sense because they keep getting charged with tax evasion.”^[22] This is false. Mouna has never been charged with tax evasion. Not once, let alone the multiple times Tasha claimed.^[23]

When asked under oath what her basis was for this claim, Tasha said she had stalked Mouna’s CaseNet records.^[24] Those records do not support her claim. They refute it. At trial, she ultimately admitted the statement was “objectively false.”^[25]

The Kill Threat That Appeared Years Later

In February 2019, more than five years after the alleged event, Tasha told Benjamin Singer that Mouna “has threatened to kill me and her,” referring to Adriane Norman.^[26] But at the November 2017 order of protection hearing, the very proceeding where establishing danger was the entire purpose, Tasha did not articulate any specific threats Mouna had made. On cross-examination, she confirmed: “Never made any threats to you, correct?” “Correct.”^[27]

She never mentioned a kill threat in her sworn petition, never posted it on Facebook, and never told T-Rex.^[28]

Critically, Adriane Norman, the very person Tasha claimed was also threatened, did not corroborate the claim. When asked directly at trial whether Mouna had ever threatened to kill her, Adriane did not say yes. She described a vague statement and said she “wasn’t sure” if it was a threat to her life.^[29a] She testified twice, in both her deposition and at trial, that Mouna never threatened to kill her.^[29b] She also confirmed that Tasha had lied about Mouna running her out of town.^[29c] And Adriane continued dating Mouna and discussed marriage afterward.^[29d] If someone truly believed their partner had threatened to kill them, continuing the relationship and talking about marriage would be difficult to explain.

Meanwhile, the contemporaneous text messages from the exact period Tasha identified for the alleged threat show the couple introducing each other to their families, exchanging daily affection, and making plans. On April 3, 2013, Tasha texted: “I’m excited to see you tomorrow.”^[29]

Attacks on Other Public Figures and Organizations

Tasha’s pattern of unfounded accusations extended far beyond Mouna and Cori Bush.

Hands Up United, FoodSpark, Sex+STL, and Others

Tasha repeatedly made completely unsubstantiated claims that numerous individuals and organizations accepted bribes. Under oath, she accused FoodSpark and Sex+STL of being bribed.^[30] She also targeted Hands Up United, Lindy Hop St. Louis, and the broader social justice movement with similar accusations, none supported by evidence.

Megan Green and Dhoruba Hill

In 2019, Tasha publicly accused Jeffery “Dhoruba” Hill (a candidate for 18th Ward Alder) and Megan Ellyia Green (a candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen) of “purposefully withholding evidence in a legal proceeding against a rapist” and declared that “if you assisted someone in throwing a trial against a rapist maybe you aren’t fit for office either.” In the comments, she wrote: “I AM NOT GOING TO GO AWAY.”^[31]

Claire Voltaire: Doxxing a Jewish Woman

Tasha got into a Twitter conflict with Claire Voltaire, a Jewish woman who writes under a pseudonym to protect herself and her Black, disabled, Jewish daughter. Tasha encouraged Claire to be doxxed and offered a bounty for information about her real identity, which put Claire and her daughter in danger with white supremacists and QAnon.^[32]

Claire’s own account of the doxxing describes the terror of making emergency arrangements for her daughter, losing sleep for days, scrubbing her personal information from the internet, and discovering that QAnon forums were taking an interest in her identity.^[33] Tasha, far from expressing regret, later tweeted “doxxing is the new decolonization,” publicly celebrating the practice.^[34]

Weaponizing Antisemitism

Fitting Tasha’s pattern of projecting her own behavior onto others, she manipulated and weaponized Jewish people’s justifiable fear of antisemitism against Mouna. At the order of protection hearing, Tasha characterized Mouna as having said “Israelis are genocidal” and used this as evidence of antisemitism.^[35] This is Tasha’s characterization of Mouna’s words, not a direct quote, and it was offered at a time when Tasha was still a Zionist. She has since publicly admitted she changed her own position on Zionism in 2014, after dating Mouna, writing: “i officially changed my mind about zionism in 2014 after living through brother’s keeper.”^[37] In other words, she accused Mouna of antisemitism for holding views on Israel that she herself later adopted. Tasha has described the situation in Gaza as “apartheid” and “an occupation,”^[36] and has called on Jewish people to “invest in palestinian liberation.”^[36a]

She accused Mouna of targeting Jewish women for abuse.^[38] But in addition to encouraging the doxxing of Claire Voltaire, a Jewish woman, Tasha herself viciously attacked Mouna’s Jewish ex for standing up for Mouna. That same Jewish ex helped save Mouna’s life by reminding them that they are not the horrible person Tasha claimed.^[39]

The Pattern

The names change. The tactic does not. Tasha’s approach is consistent across every target: make explosive public accusations without evidence, recruit others to amplify the narrative, lobby people in positions of power, and when confronted under oath, retreat behind “I don’t recall.” She accused Cori Bush of selling women. She accused FoodSpark, Sex+STL, and Hands Up United of accepting bribes. She accused Megan Green and Dhoruba Hill of throwing a trial. She encouraged the doxxing of Claire Voltaire. She told provable lies about Mouna’s legal record, about orders of protection, and about death threats. And when asked to account for any of it under oath, she had no evidence and no explanation.

The documentary record is clear. The smear campaign is not incidental to Tasha’s conduct. It is central to it.