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Backpage co-founder sentenced to five years in prison
Michael Lacey, a founder of the defunct classified site Backpage.com, received a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday and was fined $3 million. Lacey was found guilty of money laundering last year in a sweeping case that alleged Backpage executives promoted and profited from prostitution. Lacey was convicted on a single count of international concealment money laundering in November 2023 but…
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Man sentenced for hacking state registry to fake his own death
A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) informs that Jesse Kipf used stolen credentials to access the Hawaii Death Registry System to register himself as a deceased person. The reason…
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