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'Spam King' Soloway Pleads Guilty to Three Charges Today
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:10:19 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Seattle Times. [snip] Robert Soloway, dubbed the "spam king" for having sent millions of unwanted e-mails around the globe, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail and failing to file a tax return. Soloway, 28, was arrested in May. Soloway faces 26 years in prison on all three counts, Sentencing is scheduled for June 20 in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Soloway has been out of jail since September because of a medical condition, but is barred from accessing the Internet without court approval. Soloway was indicted last year on 35 counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with junk e-mail, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. In January, prosecutors filed additional counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, as well as two misdemeanor charges stemming from his failure to file income-tax returns. [snip] More: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004283053_webspamking14m.h tml - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFH22hIq1pz9mNUZTMRAsYvAKCoGXCqx8WIYOVK07nP5CF2tRTezwCgwti0 //pM2ux+bB7l2SPsnAvKfw4= =Nor6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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