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MegaUpload Programmer Pleads Guilty, Gets a Year In Prison
An anonymous reader writes When MegaUpload was shut down a few years back, seven of the company's employees were indicted by the U.S. We heard a lot about Kim Dotcom's court proceedings, but not much about the others. A few days ago, we received word that programmer Andrus Nomm has been arrested in Virginia. This came as a surprise to everyone involved. MegaUpload attorney Ira Rothken said it was likely Nomm had made a deal with the Feds. Now, we know for sure: Nomm has pleaded guilty to felony copyright infringement and was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. In a statement, the Department of Justice said they will continue to pursue his co-conspirators.
He didn't.
Before agreeing to leave to the US he was awaiting an extradition trial in a foreign country unable to leave and could not find work.
They don't care about him. They want him to roll on the others and provide them with enough evidence to convince foreign courts to extradite everyone to the US where they will get a "fair and balanced" hearing and then be sentenced to decades in prison as an example of how corporate money buys "justice" as well as votes.
It does not matter if the testimony of this person is a lie or even if it was extracted in a heavy handed way using everything but torture. All they need is the targets on US soil where justice means fuck all.
This is primarily all about getting access to Dotcom. The NZ legal system is kept at arms length from politics for a reason and THIS is a great example of that reason.
And it will still not be enough most likely once they fabricate the evidence...