Kristi Noem’s husband accused using work phone

Bryon Noem is accused of using a work phone tied to Noem Insurance Group to place paid calls with Colorado sex worker Shy Sotomayor (Raelynn Riley) during a years-long online relationship. Sotomayor claims she has recordings, messages, and payment records, all

A work phone connected to an insurance company—used, allegedly, to schedule calls and coordinate payments with another woman for years. The claim lands in the middle of Kristi Noem’s carefully defined public story, and the person at the center of it is her husband, Bryon Noem.

The accusations come from Shy Sotomayor, who is known online as Raelynn Riley. Sotomayor says she has recordings, messages, and payment records documenting nearly a decade of contact with Bryon. In her account. Bryon repeatedly contacted her through a phone number associated with Noem Insurance Group. and the number was used to set up calls and coordinate payments that she says eventually totaled tens of thousands of dollars.

Sotomayor also links the phone number to a separate set of allegations discussed earlier. The number matches one previously linked to Bryon in an April The Independent report that reviewed messages in which he allegedly discussed feminization and expressed a desire to be called “Crystal.” In that earlier coverage. Bryon responded that the allegations were “not all true. ” though he did not specify which claims he disputes.

As Sotomayor describes it, the conversations were not limited to scheduling. She says they often centered on feminization and transition-related topics.

“I knew he was in my DMs saying. ‘I want to be trans. bimbo. I want to get hair implants. I wanna get b***** implants. I wanna do all of this kind of transitioning. ’” Sotomayor said. She added that Bryon would later present a different image publicly. describing his wife as “God’s gift” and asserting she was “right in everything that she does.”.

Sotomayor says Bryon frequently referred to himself in feminine terms, using aliases including Crystal. She also points to an email address containing “Chrystalballz666,” and she claims he repeatedly asked to go by Crystal. “He repeated asked to go by Crystal,” she said. “He said, ‘I will be your trans girl.’”.

The allegations carry added weight because they appear at odds with Kristi Noem’s politics as governor of South Dakota. Kristi Noem signed legislation restricting gender-affirming care for minors. limiting transgender participation in sports. and expanding protections for businesses that deny services to the LGBTQ+ community.

Sotomayor says she did not initially know her client’s identity. She says she learned it after Bryon allegedly failed to switch aliases on a PayPal invoice. She also portrays him as unconcerned about the risk of being found out.

“Anytime I talked to him and was like, ‘Hey, people could find us out,’ he’s like, ‘I don’t care,’” Sotomayor recalled. She described Bryon as a “loose cannon” who continued making contact even as public scrutiny increased.

A former CIA officer told the Daily Mail that behavior like this could create vulnerabilities if discovered by a hostile intelligence service.

The timing of the earliest reports is another element that Sotomayor says she remembers sharply. She points to the period when Kristi Noem left her position in the Trump administration. The first reports about Bryon Noem’s alleged online activities surfaced around the same time that Kristi left her role at the Department of Homeland Security in March.

Bryon Noem has largely remained out of public view throughout his wife’s political career. The couple has been married for more than 30 years and has long presented their family as Christian and conservative.

Sotomayor says her fears escalated as early attention surfaced. She told the story of living near a detention facility in Colorado and said Kristi was overseeing ICE operations at the time. Sotomayor said she feared retaliation.

The claims. taken together—work-phone use tied to an insurance company. repeated contact over nearly a decade. payment records described as reaching tens of thousands of dollars. and allegations of aliases tied to “Crystal”—are now colliding with a public political identity centered on restricting gender-affirming care and limiting transgender participation in sports.

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