Quote from: burnside on January 25, 2019, 07:27:28 AM

Even with all that, it seems crazy that you'd put a non-violent person in federal prison for 20 years.

The guy has proven tech skills. Order him to pay it back. Let him work and garnish his pay. Put him on probation until every victim is made whole.

Unless you really think he's rotten to the core don't let those 4 kids grow up without a father. Hating the world, hating the government, and hating their dad. You create 4 more victims, an additional burden on taxpayers, and how will he ever repay anyone from prison?

If he fails to keep a job, fails to make payment progress, goes out defrauding people again, or fails to care for his family - then you can wack him with a parole violation and then prison becomes an option.

My $0.02.

I agree on that. Let him work. However, I'm not really sure if the victims are topic at all at the moment. Do they search for the hacker or don't they care about that at all? I mean all punishment is only some formal thing.

Also in another article I have read about SEC demanding nearly 3 years of imprisonment for lying to them. So is this the second felony?

Also I'm surprised about not knowing that he did not only fake documents he showed the SEC, but also had some problems before. I don't care about a small, stupid copyright infringement, but stealing and tax evasion was new to me till yesterday when I read this article: https://btcmanager.com/founder-bitfunder-jon-montroll-no-stranger-legal-system/?q=/founder-bitfunder-jon-montroll-no-stranger-legal-system/

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A hymnbook of legal wrangles accompanies Jon E. Montroll. As early as 1998 he was arrested for stealing electronics from Frys computer store in Arlington, Texas.

At the time, he was also guilty of tax evasion, with the County Clerks Office in Wilbarger County, Texas, holding a judgment worth $251,546.32 for unpaid taxes against Montroll, a listed defendant in that case. It remains unclear whether the amount was settled with the IRS or whether Montroll remains a fugitive of that judgment.

OmniAmerican Bank successfully obtained a judgment against Montroll and another of his companies, ColoGuys for $36,979.72 in 2010. Whether this contractual debt was ever settled also remains unclear.

The subsequent suing of Montroll for violation of personal rights around the sex tape hosted by Montrolls ColoGuys illuminated Montrolls disregard for intellectual property and willingness to illegally smooth things over when he felt it necessary.

Carolyn Murphy, once a Sports Illustrateds swimsuit model, sued Montroll for his eventual exposure of her sex tape, while the Arizona outfit ICG holds the copyright to the material, an operator of several popular adult websites obtained the rights in 2006.

An excerpt from the tape had been available for free download on a site hosted on servers run by ColoGuys and subsequently Montroll. In spite of a lawyers letter demanding the excerpt be taken down, Montroll declined, resulting in ICG eventually suing.

Well, I think he really got hacked but those things somewhat let me doubt it. I mean back then getting hacked with magic internet money, sure, bad decisions easily could happen. Exchanges didn't announce it freely back then. And the total inexperience in these legal areas, well, I can see how it happened, even though I lost my coins because of that. But stealing electronics? And unpaid taxes worth a quarter million? Why?

Does someone here know his actual lawyer? And are there ongoing lawsuits to recover funds from ukyo? Didn't read from one. And is there an ongoing official investigation targetted at the hacker?