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AOL spammer gets 30-month federal prison term

By Douglas A. Berman

Though the sentencing of the so-called "Spam King" is still on-going (background here, update here), there is other spam sentencing news coming from the courts today.  As detailed in this piece, a "Brooklyn man was sentenced to more than two years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to sending unsolicited 'spam' emails to about 1.2 million subscribers of Time Warner Inc. America Online."  Here are more particulars:At a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan sentenced Adam Vitale to 30 months in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release. He also was ordered to pay restitution of more than $183,000 to AOL. "The spamming is serious criminal conduct," the judge said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 15, 2008 (boomark / email).