Christmas Light Scammer Gets Jail
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SALT LAKE CITY - If her invention had been real, she might have made big bucks. Instead, she gets coal in her stocking - and time behind bars.
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A member of an international crime ring which bought fake Viagra and drugs against baldness from factories in Asia before selling them on to unsuspecting customers at a huge profit has been jailed in Britain.
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DENVER, COLO. - A Colorado man who garnered widespread media attention after claiming he had created a website that would allow net users to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on from their home desktops has admitted it was a hoax.
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LAFAYETTE, Colo. - After festooning his house with 17,000 Christmas lights, Alex Komarnitsky wanted more than just drive-by gawkers to be able to enjoy the spectacle.
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A suburban Los Angeles  man has been sentenced to five years in prison and fined  $350,000 for participating in an international cable-piracy  scheme involving the sale of more than 100,000 cable  descramblers.
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By Wendy Leonard Deseret Morning News  A man who intentionally caused a widespread Internet blackout in the Vernal area earlier this yea was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison.
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A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--This time of year, when B.J. and Ashley Sintay step outside their Winston-Salem home, their Christmas lights flicker.   That's not an electrical glitch, it's a salutation -- from people as far away as Pakistan.
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An Australian man whose international email scam stripped A$5 million ($5.48 million) from his victims has been jailed in a continuing global war against Nigerian internet frauds.
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A priest who gave thousands of pounds to a friend who used it to groom a young girl is convicted of facilitating a child sex offence.
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CHICAGO -- A former employee was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from public broadcasting station WTTW-TV.
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A judge on Friday sentenced a father whose 12-year-old daughter was burned in his home methamphetamine lab to more than 10 years in prison.
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An orchid dealer was sentenced Wednesday to a year and five months in federal prison for scheming to smuggle prized tropical lady slipper orchids into the United States.
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Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis was sentenced to four months in jail Wednesday for using a cell phone to try to set up a drug deal about 4 1/2 years ago.
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Man who masterminded scam to charge people thousands of pounds for American work visas is sentenced to 15 months in prison
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A judge sentences a man, who was late for a court appearance, to 140 hours community service over the phone.