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A man who is known as the “Spam King: aka Robert Soloway was sentenced for the millions of unsolicited emails sent to world wide web users was sentenced in a Seattle court to approximately four years in prison. Authorities in question had asked for more than 2 times the amount of years he was ultimately sentenced to under the Can-Spam Act because of his high profile criminal activities, but his lawyer had reduced the sentencing.
He is only the second person to be convicted under the Can-Spam Act and he stated in court he did this to afford a luxury apartment and expensive clothing.
Investigators found that he used a program named Dark Mailer to get into a network of botnets that sent bulk emails anonymously. Soloway had sent for commercial clients and used the addresses of real people without their knowledge.
By using the programs that Soloway used that switched the emails to appear the person had sent it to themselves rather than it coming from Soloway it was argued that this violated the Can-Spam Act.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Cohen asked for a nine year sentence in the case and Judge Pechman who presided over the sentencing after Soloways guilty plea also heard from Soloway and chose sentencing years less than the Assistant U.S. Attorney asked for.
Soloway claimed that he had ”earned’ around $120,000 during 2005 and then became accustomed to living in a high end lifestyle and while he is now ashamed of his criminal actions at the time of the events he was worried with keeping this life style. He also stated the funds that he made in 2005 was not enough to actually keep up with his huge credit card debt.

August 8, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)

According to reports by Los Angeles car accident attorneys, a woman who has now been identified by the Coroner’s Office as Molly Kate Lamers-Wolfgang age 34 a resident of Manhattan Beach who was reported missing was found in her car after an apparent accident.

While the accident is still under investigation by the California Highway Patrol it is known that Lamers-Wolfgang was driving to her families Lake Arrowhead home when she was reported missing.

The vehicle she was driving, a silver 2008 Lexus was found after California Highway Patrol officers found broken guardrails and vehicle debris including a license plate on Wednesday evening. Then they found the Lexus that had gone through the guardrail traveling approximately 800 feet below. The vicinity the vehicle and driver were found was Highway 18 in the area of Red Rock Wall and Rimforest in the San Bernardino Mountains. The area the broken guardrail was found is known as a scenic viewing area and also a turnaround point.

According to Sgt. Robert O’Brine of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office, the area is not accessable by vehicle or foot. A medic was lowered by helicopter to the bottom of the cliff where the vehicle was resting and determined Lamer’s-Wolfgang was dead.

The rescue workers were airlifted to a point where they could hike to the vehicle, with the onset of darkness three rescue personel and a sheriff’s deputy stayed with the vehicle and Lamers-Wolfgang who had sustained fatal injuries. Thursday the body of Lamers-Wolfgang was recovered from the scene of the accident.

The California Highway Patrol also planned to airlift the vehicle up to continue their investigation. What they were able to access was that the vehicle was traveling north in the vicinity of Lake Gregory Drive and the weather at the approximate time was clear.

The have also not ruled out foul play in the fatal accident and stated they will not have a cause for the accident until the investigation is completed according to California Highway Patrol Officer Gary Fernandez.

Officer Fernandez also stated that the vehicle was not visible and what gave them a crucial clue was the license plate that was found near the broken guardrail, helping them to identify the driver. The officer also stated that while it is early in the investigation there has been tire marks found on a stretch of the road leading to where the guardrails are located. The marks show that Lamers-Wolfgang was traveling around a curve and veered off her lane onto the shoulder where she went off the cliff.

Sgt. Fernandez also stated that the investigation is going to be very thorough and will include talking to friends and family that would have seen or spoken to the victim the days prior to the accident. 

 A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s helicopter spotted the broken guardrails and the vehicle. Rescue workers at the scene of the accident were aided by members of the U.S. Forest Service in the recovery of Lamers-Wolfgang’s body.  

Lamers-Wolfgang was reported missing Monday evening when she did not telephone her husband. Her husband Kurt Wolfgang filed a missing persons report with the Manhattan Beach Police Department and Wednesday hired a helicopter to search the mountains. The helicopter did not find anything according to Lamers – Wolfgang’s brother-in-law Andy Bark, he also stated the family has concerns that someone might have driven into her lane on the mountain road causing her to veer out of her lane.

 Bark also stated that Lamers-Wolfgang made the drive to the Lake Arrowhead home several times a week with her children and she was a stay at home mother that occasionally was employed as a massage therapist. 

Lamers- Wolfgang is survived by her children ages 4 and 11, her husband Kurt Wolfgang, father Micheal Lamers. She is also survived by siblings Megan Bark, Stacy and Devin Lamers, brothers Erik and David Lamers.

    In a rather bizarre story coming out of the bay area,  Terry Childs has been accused of locking out authorized network administrators from the system and has even apparently refused to give up passwords for the San Francisco online computer network he helped to construct

   It seems that he has pleaded not guilty to some 4 seperate criminal felony counts of coInjury lawyermputer network tampering plus 1 additional count of causing excessive loss which is reported to be in access of $200,000.

   Currently Childs bail is set at $5 million bucks and he is also supposed to go to another bail hearing next week. When Child’s current bail was set his lawyer on the case argued that the bail for those who do not cause any type of personal injury from a violent act ot acts is most often set at around $1 million dollars or so. This high bail total, which is virtually unpayable from a man in his financial position, may be because his crimes cuts to the bone of the whole municipal online network, which has the potential for a rather crippling effect. Of course it should be noted that the defendent in this case is innocent untill proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt….. Should you need a top drawer San Francisco Personal injury lawyer you should consider the law offices of Scott Righthand. He is absolutely one of the top personal injury attorney in the SF bay area and he additionally covers other nearby localities like Oakland, Santa Rosa, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and other portions of central California into the inland empire. Ha can give you a fast telephone consultation as well.

   According to the Department of Technology there are some sections of this somewhat vast and lumbering network which are still locked at the time of this writing. Some of the records which are located on this network include records and law enforcement documents and fully more than half of San Francisco’s traffic data. Wow that is a lot of important data indeed  Furthermore, Ron Vinson of the Dept. of Technology has said that they have control of the FiberWan network and are working with their forensics team to reclaim total access. He said that while Childs has not been laid off or perhaps fired as it were he does have the authority to fill his position while he is on administrative leave awaiting trial. It should be interesting to see exactly how this case unfolds and you can bet that cyber-security experts will be studying and monitoring this incident very closely for future procedural doctrine.