I hope he gets given more jail time when he's caught.
21 months is ridiculously little, considering the number of people he's annoyed - and the amount of money he's got from it.
A convicted spammer who who generated millions of dollars blasting out pump-and-dump messages has gone AWOL from the federal prison camp where he was serving a 21-month sentence. Edward "Eddie" Davidson, 35, walked away from a minimum security prison camp in Colorado on Sunday, according to news reports citing Justice …
Judges generally don't like being ignored. If the judge says "21 months", he bloody well means it!
Evel Knievel was 5 hours late from a work pass, and got 6 more months inside. It could easily have been 3 more years! That's the sort of "order of magnitude" this shit-head is looking at when he gets caught. And I don't think that white-collar criminals generally have the street-smarts and connections to stay on the run for long. Just hope they get hime before he flees the country.
Edward "Eddie" Davidson. Presumably he got out by saying he was just plain Edward Davidson at the exit gate. US guards wouldn't be able to relate the name Eddie to Edward.
Really the people who go for these special "not to be missed", "nothing to lose" spam offers should be locked up for their own safety.
That most criminals who pursue white collar monetary crimes do not ever come close to paying back what they have stolen or being economically punished for what they have done. Just go back and look at all the big bank, savings & load, and stock market ripoffs and see. not a single person ever held fully accountable for what they stole, caused in losses, etc.
All rigghhht...Time for another crime spree!
Unless, of course, your "crime" was to show up the government. Or show them up as incompetent retards.
Then you get a $5m bail and look at real jail times.
Heck, here in the UK if you steal £10,000 in the old fashioned way you may get some months in prison. May. If you refuse to pay your poll tax and "steal" £600 from the government, you'll be in prison for months no problem.
"Federal authorities have already seized gold coins and other property belonging to Davidson."
Gold coins?? Did he pirate in his spare time too?
No chance of catching him now then, he'll be back on the open seas by now.
Mines the one with the parrot glued to the shoulder....Yaharr matey
Sorry but this have been on NANAE for a couple of days now.
According to the news reports, he was at a minimum security prison. With a 21 month sentence he'd be out in short manner.
He didn't just walk out, apparently his wife was there (visiting maybe?), he reportedly forced his way in to her car, drove to their house, got changed in to new clothes and then took off to whereabouts unknown.
Here's a free clue to the feds. If you've recovered some gold coins from your convict, the odds are that there are more that you haven't yet found. So he should be a flight risk. He's also a known identity thief so you can bet he'll have a couple of stolen identities that you're not aware of. He's a flight risk.
What's dumb is that he could have done the time in club fed and then split. 21 months less time off for good behavior?