Men Imprisoned for Adult Spam

Spammers jailed for five years

[kamikaze Optimizer]

PHOENIX (AP) — Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic e-mails have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of the first prosecution under a federal anti-spam law, U.S. Department of Justice officials said Friday.

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[ispy]

What about the rest of the money? They got to keep the $700K? Someone take all the money back!

[kaled]

If any of the companies these individuals represented are under US jurisdiction, they should be prosecuted as well - now that really would send out the right sort of signal. After all, paying someone else to spam on your behalf is just as bad as sending the spam in the first place.

Kaled.

[King_Fisher]

Kaled, Spot on! You don't nail the burglar and let the fence go!...KF

What about the rest of the spammers? I get one or two p 0rno spams a week.

My spam filters gets most of them but not all. Who do you report this stuff to?

[edited by: lawman at 6:08 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2007]

[kamikaze Optimizer]

Well, not for not; but the judge did give them the maximum sentence of 5 years.

[King_Fisher]

With good behavior they are out in 3 or maybe less. I wonder if they stashed any of the loot?...KF

[kamikaze Optimizer]

With good behavior they are out in 3 or maybe less.

Technically, they were sentenced to 60 months.

The statute entitles a federal prisoner to 54 days off for each year of the sentence imposed.

They will do 4 years and 3 months in Federal custody with the last 6 months of that time in a halfway house.

[King_Fisher]

Technically you are correct. But don't forget to factor in prison over crowding

and parole board proceedings. Non violent offences, they could get out early.

[kamikaze Optimizer]

All of your comments might hold if they were convicted on the state level, but the Federal system is much different.

But don't forget to factor in prison over crowding...

This is not a factor in the Federal system.

...parole board proceedings.

There is no parole in the Federal system.

Non violent offences, they could get out early.

This is not a factor in the Federal system.

They are going to do 3 years and 9 months behind bars, then 6 months in a halfway house.

[edited by: kamikaze_Optimizer at 7:11 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2007]

[King_Fisher]

Kaz, I bow to your superior knowledge on Federal Law. For some reason I didn't

tumbled to it being a Federal matter. Gotta start reading these posts a little

closer. Got a little egg on my face today!...KF

[kamikaze Optimizer]

It is not egg in the face. You are more knowledgeable on a topic tonight then you were this morning. :)

[kamikaze Optimizer]

Upon reading the official court records, it seem the Judge actually gave these two guys even longer sentences:

Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, Calif. was sentenced to 72 months and James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., to 63 months.

Kilbride received a longer sentence because the court found that he had obstructed justice by trying to deter a government witness from testifying in the case. This is one of those things a Judge can impose at sentencing if he really does not like you.

As far as non drug related Federal sentences go, those are long sentences.