'Black hat' extortionist thrown back in the clink after Yelp-slamming biz Sometimes it's best to just let old grudges go. A man previously sent down for trying extort a company with hacking threats has been thrown back behind bars for more than eight years for targeting that same business with negative reviews just weeks after being released. William Stanley was sentenced earlier this month to 97 …
Because it's not like he murdered anyone. I'm not comparing him to Kevin Mitnick, as Kevin wasn't so bad. But even people told him who were in for murder while he was inside that his sentence (which never was as he never was charged) was to harsh. Considering he served 4 and a half years before he'd been found guilty.
The initial imprisonment was for extortion against a particular victim.
The second was for "retaliation against a witness, victim, or informant", in other words against the justice system itself. Property does not enter into this at all. No wonder it's the more serious offence.
Not mentioned in the article but does he get to serve the remainder of the 37 months consecutive with the new sentence?
> sort out your corrupt politics"
> Pot meet Kettle.
Really? An American dares to call out any other western countrys politics?
Nearly all political systems are corrupt, but they are angels compared to americas cesspool... And this isn't a personal attack on the American people --- why do you automatically defend something a foreigner critiscises even though you probably hold the same view yourself? It's very immature.
When someone is locked up, it is normally to protect society from them. In this case, it is arguably to protect the perp from himself. While the sentence is fairly harsh, I think he went out of the way to demonstrate that he was never going to stop and that he was never not going to get caught. Basically, it was as if he had a checklist of how to piss off a judge and he managed to add a few boxes.
"You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
People should indeed be free to do as they choose but people, especially those who argue freedom of speech in any and all circumstances, seem to think they should also be free of any consequences. In those cases, I refer you to the words of Sir Terry quoted above.
Reread the first amendment and court cases regarding it.
You don't have the right to say anything at anytime.
First amendment means you can speak out against the government without reprisal. Doesn't mean you can trash your neighbor, slander or threaten people.
Someone didn't do their homework in school, and only listens to moronic political laced comments.
What an idiot, Surely he was the first suspect they would investigate when fake negative reviews started to appear shortly after he was released, and by the sound of it, he was doing the fake reviews from the half way house, which I am assuming would be logging internet activity if they had ex-cons staying there.
Nowhere in the article did I see a claim that the reviews were fake. As an ex-employee he claimed he had done some dubious work for GE. He also assembled links to negative articles about GE.
Looks like he (rightly) went to prison after trying extortion with the threat of publishing negative reviews, then when he got out he carried out the threat. Given that he had been jailed for making the threat the outcome was probably predictable.
The crime, though, was the attempted extortion. If he had just posted a negative review on Glassdoor and assembled a site with negative reviews I assume that GE would have had to challenge the truth of any allegations. If the reviews were in good faith then this might have been a harder task for GE.
Still, looks like you get more jail time for an offence against a corporate than more mundane stuff like violence.
All parole conditions will come with a statement (to the effect) of staying away from those affected by your actions which originally landed you in jail/prison.
Along with about 20 other items.
In the USA, any violation of your parole will put you back for the full time (for state/local sentences), and will likely cause you to face new FEDERAL charges. Under federal sentencing guidelines, you serve the entire sentence. No chance of parole after 12 months.
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