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'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison

Posted by timothy on from the save-us-al-franken dept.

Frosty Piss writes Kevin Christopher Bollaert, who operated a 'revenge porn' web site, was been found guilty in February of six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft. He faced a maximum of 23 years in prison. On Friday, April 3rd, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. The extortion charges stem from a second web site he ran that solicited payments of $250 to $350 from people who wanted to have the photographs deleted. Bollaert made about $30,000 on that site.

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  1. Caution: Autoplaying video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Autoplaying video should be banned from the interwebs

  2. Re:Constipated Justice System by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Informative

    He got about 1 year per charge. For someone with no remorse and a likelihood of re-offending, that's not excessive. If they had separate trials in sequence, the 3rd felony conviction would likely have landed him a life sentence for 3-strikes. So they went easier on him than the worse-case.

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