Judge Rejects Guilty Plea In Spam Case
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A federal judge declined to accept a guilty plea yesterday from a former software engineer at America Online Inc. who had been accused of stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses of subscribers for use in an Internet marketing scheme.
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Two men accused of aiding a Romanian man charged with hacking into the online ordering system of the world's largest computer equipment distributor pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
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Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong Radio 3 audio website on 28 May  Starting from Friday [1 June], people who send electronic spam could be jailed for five years and fined 1m dollars [approx 128,000 US].
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Knocked back The UK's biggest spammer, convicted on a variety of charges ranging from fraud and blackmail to making threats to kill and sentenced to six years imprisonment, has failed in an appeal court bid to quash two of his convictions.â¦
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The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former White House budget director David A. Stockman yesterday rejected a bid to remove the lead prosecutor.
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Alleged spammer Jeremy Jaynes must pay $1 million in bail for sending as many as 15 million junk e-mails a day and bilking recipients of millions of dollars, a Virginia judge ordered this week.
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Two plead guilty to offenses under the Can-Spam Act after ISP finds they had sent out thousands of junk messages.
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A U.S. magistrate on Friday rejected arguments by the Bush administration and urged a federal judge to order the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails
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A judge Tuesday rejected a defense claim that prosecutors waited too long to announce they would seek the death penalty against serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph.
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The judge in GEICO&#39;s trademark infringement case against Google and Yahoo!&#39;s Overture division has declined the defendants&#39; motions to dismiss, effectively giving the go-ahead to a case with big implications for search engines&#39; use of trademarks as
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Anti-spam activists disagree about whether a $1.08 billion judgment Friday against three spammers in Iowa will discourage others from sending unsolicited bulk e-mail.
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US District Judge Kathleen Kollar-Kotelly - who nearly five years ago was at the center of the spotlight as the second district judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial - stated Google is not a party to that case, rejecting Google's plea to consider extending the settlement term that would enable its objections to be remedied.
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A US federal judge has ordered a man dubbed the Spam King to disable so-called spyware programs. US District Judge Joseph DiClerico issued a temporary restraining order against one of the world&#39;s worst spammers
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A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online software engineer who was accused of stealing 92 million e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.
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(InfoWorld) - Adam Vitale pled guilty Monday to sending unsolicited e-mail to 1.2 million AOL LLC subscribers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said. Vitale and co-defendant Todd Moeller, were in contact with a government confidential informant via instant messaging, and agreed to send spam advertisements for a product in exchange for half of the profits, Garcia said in a statement. The pair then sent about 1.2 million unsolicited e-mails to AOL users between August 17 and August 23, 2005. They changed the headers on the e-mails and used various computers to conceal the source of the spam. Vitale, 26, resides in Brooklyn. Sentencing is scheduled for September 13 before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, who presided over the criminal case, in Manhattan. He faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison and a fine of US$250,000 or double the maximum gain or loss resulting from the offense. Moeller, a New Jersey resident, will stand trial for the same charges. One observer felt the legal victory was somewhat hollow. "I think this is a moral victory for AOL, but not much else," said Adam O'Donnell, director of emerging technologies at Cloudmark Inc. "The economic motivations underlying abuse mean some other spammer has already taken his place, and it is likely the spammer's replacement is coming from outside American jurisdiction." Â
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Federal prosecutors and a former America Online software engineer have negotiated a tentative plea agreement over charges he stole more than 92 million e-mail addresses and sold them to Internet spammers, according to two people familiar with the case.
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update A district judge in New York has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee charged with stealing 92 million e-mail addresses from the online giant, citing vagueness in the prosecutors&#39; argument that the theft violated