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Originally posted by Headless
You idiots amaze me. The judge still has to set his jailtime. A jury RECOMMENDED 9 years.
LOLO
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Doesn't matter what he gets, he still got owned
Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., one of the Internet's top 10 spammers, according to watchdogs, was convicted in the first felony spam case -- just up the road from Fool HQ in Loudoun County, Va. He and his sister, Jessica DeGroot, were both found guilty by a jury that then recommended a jail term of nine years for Jaynes and a fine of $7,500 for DeGroot.
What's important here is the nature of the convictions: intentional spamming. Jaynes and DeGroot were convicted not for the alleged fraudulent nature of their millions of email solicitations -- Jaynes has amassed a reported fortune of $24 million hawking products like penny-stock pickers -- but for sending unsolicited junk and forging IP addresses to cover their tracks.
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04110519.htm