30 Years For Online Pharmacy Spammer

jotter507 writes "So, you get arrested for running an illegal online pharmacy and the judge orders you to stop selling medication over the Internet. Don't sit around and do nothing before the trial! Run off to the Dominican Republic on a false passport, withdraw money from an account ordered frozen, and start up another online 'pharmacy.' It didn't end well for 27-year old Christopher William Smith, also known as 'Rizler.' The world-reviled spammer and Internet drug dispenser received a 30-year sentence from a federal judge on Wednesday."

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Re:Excellent !

[fyngyrz]

Oh yes, [sarcasm] excellent. [/sarcasm] I wonder which enumerated power of the constitution gives the federal government the power to tell citizens what businesses they can and cannot run. Oh, right, there is no such power.

That means that the power to tell citizens what businesses they can run either belongs to the states, or to the citizens. You'll note that TFS says "federal judge." Welcome to imperial government coercion, example # zillion+1.

It would be nice

[OhHellWithIt]

It would be nice if people didn't post "print" links to articles. Lots of times this cuts out the advertising that the publisher has on the web page. Sure, most of us don't really care about the ads, but what helps the publisher make money to post the articles in the first place is the advertising revenue he gets from having thousands of eyeballs look at the ads. As publishers realize people are avoiding the ads, they are coming up with more complicated schemes like registration, etc. Who needs that?!!!