Slashdot Mirror
HOPE Speaker Rombom Charged with Witness Tampering
An anonymous reader writes "Steven Rombom -- a.k.a. "Steven Rambam" -- the licensed private investigator who was arrested Saturday by FBI agents minutes before his talk on privacy at the Hope Number Six hacker convention in New York -- is being charged with witness tampering and obstruction of justice in a money laundering case the government is pursuing against Albert Santoro, a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. The government alleges that Santoro hired Rombom to locate a government confidential informant whom Santoro accuses of entrapment, and that Rombom visited the informant's in-laws under the guise of an FBI agent and tried to convince them tha their son-in-law was a danger to their daughter and grandkids."
Yes, but there are more defendants than just this guy. Why is HE newsworthy?
Let me clue you into something. Some random asshat on slashdot is likely not his judge. So who cares what they think.
Besides i don't see you liberal hippies clamouring over all the persecuted blacks and other minorities. Oh, yeah, Carlin was right, we only save the cute ones [paraphrasing].
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Unless that was the FBI's best chance for knowing where he would be at what time.
:D
They have to rely on his scheduled appearances to catch up to him? Y
What was the point of illegally tapping his phone, recording all his internet activty, and monitoring his bank and credit card transactions if they can't even use it to find they guy?
Clearly the administration needs to start implanting RFID tags in all Americans, and visitors. They'll never catch up to the terr'ists if they have to wait until they have scheduled appearances before they can find them.
I for one welcome rfid tag implants. If the government can't find me even with 24x7 monitoring of all my communications and transactions I need to be implanted today to ensure my safety!!
No child left behind!!
USA! USA!
. . .you have to admit that witness tampering is at least a legitimate crime, and not as stupid as the straw man charges that Slashdotters were inventing and then disproving a few days ago.
.it looks like they're not as dumb as many people here wanted to believe.
Hey, you've got to do something to avoid work.
. .
"I'm not the man your mother warned you about. She doesn't have that much imagination."
Just because mom is right now and again doesn't imply she actually has a clue.
I didn't comment in the first thread because I didn't have enough information, but one thing was clear; the bust was designed to make as much of a public stir as possible. This is a common tactic when the intent of the bust is to apply pressure on someone; and those he associates with.
KFG