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Stephen Cohen arrested...
didn't see any post to this effect yet...
Fugitive Online Porn Mogul Is Handed Over to U.S. Agents By Richard Marosi and Joseph Menn Times Staff Writer 7:18 PM PDT, October 27, 2005 SAN DIEGO ? Four years after dodging a $65 million court judgment by fleeing the country, former online-porn mogul Stephen Michael Cohen was arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana on an immigration violation and handed over Thursday to U.S. agents. Cohen, a multiple felon and longtime con man, had been on the run since before 2001, when a judge ordered him to pay a San Francisco entrepreneur for hijacking the Internet address Sex.com. In 1995, Cohen forged a letter to Internet authorities to gain control of the address, which he transformed into a highly profitable site for pornography ads. Cohen, who had been living in a Tijuana mansion, was being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego. His apprehension was the latest twist in one of the most bizarre and longest-running feuds of the dot-com explosion. The contest pitted Cohen against Gary Kremen, a San Francisco engineer and investor who had the foresight to register the Web address in 1994, when names were doled out for free to the first person who asked. While Kremen was busy with other things, including the company that grew into the online dating site Match.com, he did nothing with Sex.com. But Cohen, fresh off a federal prison term for fraud and forgery, saw the domain's potential. In 1995, Cohen presented a forged letter to Network Solutions, ostensibly from Kremen's company, that said Kremen had been fired and that Cohen should get control of Sex.com. Network Solutions handed over the site. When Kremen discovered what had happened, he was told by Network Solutions that they couldn't help him. They suggested he sue Cohen.. But Cohen was raking in what grew to be tens of millions of dollars by selling ads on Sex.com, and he and his lawyers put up a fight -- so ferociously that the federal judge on the case ordered Cohen arrested for contempt of court. But Cohen was unavailable. During the years of litigation, he moved his millions overseas and left the country, occasionally calling Kremen to taunt him. Kremen got Sex.com back in late 2000 and the next year was awarded $65 million -- an amount that has since grown to $82 million, with interest. Kremen has collected some property from Cohen, but has yet to break even on his legal fees. "I'm excited, and I'm happy to prepare for the next stage of justice," Kremen said Thursday. An attorney for Cohen did not respond to a message seeking comment. Cohan was turned over to agents of the U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Marshals Service, according to Deputy Marshal Tania Tyler.
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Well well well. About fucking time.
Extradite him somewhere where there's a death penalty for pulling the kind of shit he pulled.
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wow, big news there
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if you guys scrolll up, that picture i made is being used in the actual court case.. that wasn't a drawing. it was footage from the network solutions headquarters in LA
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Good news.
To bad he couldn't do a few years in a Mexican prision.
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good cartoons as usual
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Finally... Good stuff, gary.
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Fantastic
Glad they got him now and not 10 years from now
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All I can saw is WOW!
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that guy is pure scum
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Congrats Mr. Kremen!
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![]() Another one bites the dust!
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Awesome!!
![]() How much cash do you think will Gary be able to find/ recover? Any guesses? Remember, this guy Cohen is a master..
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sweet :D
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Nice one!!
![]() It took long enough to get him to hit the dirt. OK next!
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I bet he won't do more than 8 years in the can. Not too much time considering the millions he raked in. Hopefully, Kremen can get the rest of the money due him.
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That's good. Its about time he got arrested.
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good luck getting any money out of him!
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Yea.. hope Kremen has a chance now, but there is a long way to go getting access to actual funds, - assuming they are still legally accessible which may be the subject of hearings in foreign courts yet.
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its very easy for someone to have offshore accounts, completely untraceable.... bet your ass Cohen had plenty of time, warning and resources to ENSURE he'll be rich when he gets out..... they'll be lucky to even find a safe with cash in his mansion....
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Big news.
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that fuck deserves prison
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About time something is done..
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A few years jail for turning it over or a few decades for holding out. |
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Whoa this should be interesting. Good news.
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Wow, glad he finally got what was coming to him.
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seriously if i was gary id have him chopped up a long fuckin time ago
this asshole deserves whats coming to him, big time phone sex scammer too
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Didn't you see the Sex.com story with Gary in front of it? ![]() I mean the Rancho Santa Fe house is incredibly dope but Gary got the shithole too ![]() |
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whoa, big news !!!!!!!!!
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http://www.***************.com/2005/...com-story.html Gary Kremen is a good friend of mine. In fact, he is one of the main reasons I'm still in this business today. He invested some money with my business several years ago and helped me grow much quicker than I normally would have grown. Gary registered the domain name sex.com. It was stolen by a conman named Stephen Cohen. If you'd like to watch a documentary on the story I've placed it here for you to download. Please note: There are 4 parts to the video and each part is enormous in filesize. If you don't have a broadband connection you may as well forget about it. I'd like to warn you that this documentary was made for late night British TV (channel 5). There is a lot of nudity and even some sex acts in PARTS of the video. That said, enjoy the show (and thanks to Jon Silverstein, aka J$tyle$, for providing the tapes - you'll meet Jon in the videos): |
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Congrats on getting that scoundrel, hopefully he's sent to a federal pound you in the ass prison ;)
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He deserves that one.
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I'm glad someone posted this new twist on this story.
A-fucking-mazing! It's right out of some comic book or grade b movie. Everyone was looking for dude and he lived in a mansion??? Did he have 'Secret Hideout' emblazened on the front lawn in neon? How do you look for a guy living in a mansion and not find him? Oh, I know, they were looking for him in some abandoned warehouse that had a tilted floor and a group of uniformed henchmen with "Henman 1" and "Henchman 2" silk screened on their shirts. Sheeesh. Only reason he got busted was because he didn't fork over enough bribe money. If, and IF he does ANY time he'll get a cakewalk spot in some golf course prison. He's got too much money to bargain with. If they threw him in a regular prison with his money the cons would milk him dry. You read about people like this and you wonder why someone never punched their lights out. It's really cruel and evidence of the incompetence of the industries and agencies you rely on. I hope dude gets his money from this guy though, it would be a form of justice. What's more is the investigation sure to come into where Cohen stashed his loot and how and believe you me, if he ain't got enough to fork over the feds will squeeze every bit of information from him. His lawyers can't claim he's paying them either or it'd be funds collected from a felon. Really interesting court case coming up for sure! |
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yay extradition!
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interesting...
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The slight "upper" on this is the generalized common rule for offshore disclosure is "if it is a criminal offense under the laws of the offshore jurisdiction" a court may listen. The other factor is that it could be construed as money laundering - that may strengthen action for recovery. Yea.. if he had any sense, there ain't gonna be a box of cash under the floorboards ![]() There are plenty folks still chasing the Galanis family (iBill-related) for something around $400 mill in missing fraud money, part of which is known to have floated offshore, - but little luck so far!
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Guy thought he'd hide out in Mexico? Fucking retard.
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Good one sam. Funny shit.
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