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United States v Nada Nadim Prouty, c. 2010. [27] Prouty was an FBI and CIA agent who was prosecuted for having a fraudulent marriage to get US residency. She claims she was persecuted by a U.S. attorney who was trying to gain media coverage by calling her a terrorist agent and get himself promoted to a federal judgeship. [28] United States v.
United States v. Drew , 259 F.R.D. 449 (C.D. Cal. 2009), [ 1 ] was an American federal criminal case in which the U.S. government charged Lori Drew with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) over her alleged cyberbullying of her 13-year-old neighbor, Megan Meier , who had died of suicide.
The California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act is in §502 of the California Penal Code. According to the State Administrative Manual of California, the Act affords protection to individuals, businesses, and governmental agencies from tampering, interference, damage, and unauthorized access to lawfully created computer data and ...
The Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who searched a license plate database for an acquaintance in exchange for cash did not violate U.S. hacking laws. The landmark ruling concludes a ...
Mr Peng, 56, of Hayward, California, was caught on FBI surveillance video completing a "dead drop" in a Northern California hotel room, [79] and allegedly completed five more dead drops between 2015 and 2018. [80] He was arrested on September 27, 2019, at his residence in Hayward, California, and denied bail at a court hearing. [80]
In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.
In November, California voters approved Proposition 36, which rolled back some of the state's most controversial soft-on-crime policies by increasing penalties for theft and drug trafficking crimes.
A pair of accused jewel thieves were caught lounging at a four-star Miami Beach hotel just days after police said they walked off with $1.7 million in valuables from a Tennessee retailer.