A fine is it?
Or will he face any real punishment?
According to the original charges it's breaches of 18 U.S.C. § 4 and § 1505.
The guidelines are that whoever violates those shall be:
"fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
and
"fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both."
Respectively. So 8 years of prison and a hefty fine sounds like the maximum available?
That might make others take these things a bit more seriously, but colour me surprised if there will be any prison time involved.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
