Two suspended sentences.........one for hacking as a teenager, one for "investing" in a company and selling shares when they went up - just what most politicians seem to do these days - particularly in the US and UK.......Vague references are made to his “criminal” past. His first arrest in 1994 as a teenage hacker resulted in a suspended sentence and the judge referring to his actions as “youthful foolishness”. His next conviction in 2003 was for “insider trading” because he bought shares in a bankrupt company and then said he was investing some money in it so its shares jumped and he sold out at a profit. Again he received a suspended sentence. Insider trading only became a crime in Germany in 1995 and Dotcom said he wasn’t aware what he had done was a crime.
His real “crime” as far as the Hollywood moguls are concerned is for doing something he hasn’t yet been convicted of any crime for – establishing Megaupload Ltd.
Yours?Always a key indicator that someone's relationship with reality is somewhat distant.
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
TOP QUOTE: The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.
10k or Prison... hmmmmmm
As it's his first offence he should be let off with a warning.
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
What a joke. It's arrogant wankers like him that really piss the people off. Why doesn't he just accept the slap over the back of the hand with a the wet lettuce leaf that he has been handed and just go and do the community service?....it'd be the only 100 hours REAL work the prick has ever done and would save the tax payer a small fortune in legal fees.![]()
I don't know what grounds he plans to appeal on. He claims he has "new evidence", but the Court of Appeals won't hear new evidence, only arguments of law.
Last edited by mada; 1st August 2014 at 12:09. Reason: *thought he was convicted on sky city donation, checked and seen he wasn't
I'm sure he will get on very well with the boys on the PD work crews ... he can even go to mid-week ones now he is not in Parliament ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
I overheard a comment that Banks was simply subject to a biased vindictive judge that didn't like him ... that will do it every time I suppose!
Allways a gamble where people politics and history are involved.![]()
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