The mayor of Louisiana has filed a cyber bullying lawsuit against what remains for now a faceless suspect.

Bart Niedner says he and his family were targets of repeated social media attacks that he calls evil, reckless and unacceptable lies.

The legal action has its roots in early 2014, just before Niedner was elected mayor. It names a person on Facebook called Silence DoGood who posted under the name The Dirt.

The lawsuit says DoGood falsely claimed Niedner and his wife covered up illegal payments at City Hall and wrongly accused Niedner of abusing his wife, engaging in sex parties and taking part in the rape of a woman. Ironically, DoGood claims that Niedner abused social media.

Niedner agreed he is prone to scrutiny as a public figure, but said the allegations are beyond reasonable and that his family members are private citizens who do not deserve pain caused by the cyber bully’s attacks. The unknown suspect apparently has a twisted knack for history because Silence DoGood was an alias used by Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

Niedner said in an e-mail that a suspect is being tracked and that he hopes to expose the misconduct as a lesson for other would-be cyber bullies.

The Niedners are seeking more than 275 thousand dollars in actual and punitive damages. A court hearing has not been set.