Ziasun criminal spammer/Promoters sent to prison
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Brother, sister convicted in junk e-mail fraud case
November 4, 2004
Leesburg, Va. -- A brother and sister who sent junk e-mail to millions of America Online customers were convicted Wednesday in the nation's first felony prosecution of Internet spam distributors.
Jurors recommended that Jeremy Jaynes be sentenced to nine years in prison and fined Jessica DeGroot $7,500 after convicting each of them of three counts of sending e-mails with fraudulent and untraceable routing information.
A third defendant, Richard Rutkowski, 30, was acquitted of similar charges.
Prosecutors said Jaynes, 30, and DeGroot, 28, who live in the Raleigh, N.C., area, used the Internet to peddle sham products and services such as a "FedEx refund processor."
Driver, 87, faces trial in crash that killed 10
Los Angeles -- An 87-year-old man whose car plowed into a Santa Monica farmers market last year, killing 10 people, was ordered Wednesday to stand trial for manslaughter.
George Russell Weller will be tried on 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, a Los Angeles County judge ruled.
The Santa Monica man is to be arraigned Nov. 17. Weller, who has pleaded not guilty, could be sentenced to up to 18 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
Deserter gets 30 days for leaving unit in 1965
Camp Zama, Japan -- Ending one of the Army's longest desertion cases, Charles Robert Jenkins was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in a military jail for abandoning his unit on a freezing hillside to cross over into North Korea nearly 40 years ago.
Jenkins, 64, admitted he left his men before dawn Jan. 5, 1965, to avoid the dangers of patrols along the Demilitarized Zone and a possible assignment to Vietnam.
Though he faced a possible life term, he was given only 30 days in jail and a demotion from sergeant to the rank of private. He also was forced to forfeit all back pay and benefits and handed a dishonorable discharge.
Son replaces late father as president of nation
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates -- The United Arab Emirates appointed Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as its president Wednesday, hours after burying his father in a funeral that attracted thousands of mourners.
Sheik Khalifa is the eldest son of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the nation's founding president, who died Tuesday at age 86.
In other news
Tokyo -- A magnitude-5.2 earthquake this morning shook buildings and swayed trees in a northern Japan region still recovering from last month's quake, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no reports of injuries.
Houston -- A natural gas pipeline ruptured early Wednesday, shaking suburban homes and generating a vapor cloud that forced the brief evacuation of dozens of residents. No one was injured.
-- From Star news services |
