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Anthony J. Pellicano (born March 22, 1944) is a high-profile Los Angeles private investigator and convicted criminal known as a Hollywood fixer. [1] He served a term of thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms, and a grenade.
He was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation as part of a plea deal under Florida's Youthful Offender Act, which limits the penalties for convicted felons under the age of 21. [8] According to the Tampa Bay Times, he was able to serve part of his time in a military-style boot camp. [9]
He was the first American to be released from prison with a court sentence that banned him from using computers and the internet after his prison sentence. Although Chris Lamprecht was sentenced first with an internet ban on May 5, 1995, Poulsen was released from prison before Lamprecht and began serving his ban sentence earlier. (Poulsen's ...
A man convicted of carrying out one of the most damaging data breaches in the CIA's history — the public disclosure of secret hacking tools — was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison ...
A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for divulging a cache of classified hacking tools to the whistle-blowing platform Wikileaks and possessing child abuse images.. Joshua ...
A federal judge in Connecticut has sentenced George Garofano to eight months in prison and three years' supervised release after pleading guilty to compromising celebrities' iCloud accounts (plus ...
As of 2012, the longest sentence for computer crimes is that of Albert Gonzalez for 20 years. [11] The next longest sentences are those of 13 years for Max Butler , [ 12 ] 108 months for Brian Salcedo in 2004 and upheld in 2006 by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and 68 months for Kevin Mitnick in 1999.
A leader of a notorious video-game piracy crime ring — which sold hacking software and devices to download stolen games to consoles including the Nintendo Switch — was sentenced to 40 months ...