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Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Battle To Recover Seized Assets (cnet.com)
The Justice Department wants to keep Kim Dotcom's millions of dollars worth of seized assets, citing the Megaupload founder's fugitive status. The department filed a brief on Friday, which cited his fugitive status as well as a lack of evidence supporting claims that poor health was preventing him from entering the U.S. CNET reports: Dotcom has been in the news since 2012, when the FBI and the US Department of Justice shut down file-sharing site Megaupload and charged the site's operators with the piracy-related offenses. The U.S. government also seized $42 million in assets. Dotcom, alongside Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato, are wanted for trial in the U.S. on 13 counts, including copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud. In February, the New Zealand High Court found that Dotcom, a New Zealand resident, and his co-accused were eligible for extradition to the United States.
Trump needs the money, to pay back his Russian loans....
Up your game Kim, didn't you see the cabinet meeting? "On behalf the entire senior staff around you, Mr. President, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing you've given us to serve your agenda and the American people,".
I actually don't care what he's accused of doing. His name alone merits being locked up in solitary and misplacing the key for a few decades.
What the actual fuck kind of a god damn hack job is this submission? gtfo with this garbage. Maybe you should wait until the Supreme Court actually, you know, decides what to do with the petition.
Ass fucks.
A "brief" being filed doesn't necessarily mean that a judge swung his gavel. Geez! This is a total fail on the ./ editor's part.
Also:
Kim Dotcom isn't a US citizen and has been going to all his NZ court dates. Hardly what I'd call a fugitive.
Why can't we go back to using jumpers to configure slot adapter cards? Why? I say!
That in August, he'll lose the appeal and is finally removed from New Zealand.
Additionally, they should revoke his residency since he lied on the application about previous criminal convictions.
Nobody said you can troll. Slashdot is private property, you don't have to stay.
Anyone who goes against the status quo in the waxing totalitarian plutocracy is a fugitive
From the very beginning pirates were stealing other people's property. I guess this makes the US Government the biggest pirates of all.
...he knows too much...
"Fugitive" is typically used to mean someone on the run in hiding, escaping the police... not someone making persistently annoying use of lawyers.
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Welcome to the new world where using the legal system to even determine what your rights are classifies you as a fugitive.
some karma... and kinda lukewarm about it.
Far from a saint? Sure, Kim Dotcom is pretty much scum. That doesn't mean that he doesn't deserve justice.
The US has overreached in this case. They somehow convinced New Zealand to go along with it. They both got caught doing illegal stuff, which ought to have ended the case then and there.
Instead, they have adopted a strategy seems to be one of seizing assets, and then running up Dotcom's legal bills, in hopes that he simply won't be able to defend himself any longer. Whatever this is, "justice" isn't the term that springs to mind.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Your poor spelling, failure to understand basic definitions of words, and general ignorance, particularly about how NZ politics and "veto" actually work, are offensive to the rest of us "Kiwis".
Dotcom may or may not be guilty of what the US authorities are currently alleging, but all he's done so far is follow his allowed due process.
Kimmie? No. He has many character flaws and he certainly deserves to roast for quite a few things, but one thing is certain: Not for him knowing too much.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Kimmie deserves justice. And sorry to say it, but this pretty much is it.
They got Capone for tax evasion instead of his real crimes because they couldn't tack them to him. It's not that different here. Yes, under normal circumstances I'd be outraged that the US abuse their international muscle to get their way, but with Kimmie, it's at best indirect justice.
He managed to swindle and bribe his way out of so many prisons and sold former partners and investors left and right to investigators to save his own hide, I cannot in good faith say that he doesn't deserve this.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A terrorist is a terrorist unless he wins. Then he is a freedom fighter.
Robin Hood was essentially a libertarian. He didn't rob the rich and gave it the poor, he robbed the government and gave it to the tax payers.
It's all a matter of perspective.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Maybe you missed it but Kim Dotcom hated Hillary and also predicted Hillary's troubles with Wikileaks months in advance on Twitter.
I seem to remember him also working with east European technical people a lot. It would be interesting to know whether or not he actually had anything to do with all that.
How can he be a fugitive from the USA?... when he has never been there. Your laws don't apply to us, we are not US citizens.
Searching any thing in the life of people to put them in jail is not justice. Even about Capone, Dotcom, in fact for anybody. Anybody can be put in jail under those conditions.
This is why there are some failsafes in the constitution and in the human rights declaration against unreasonable search and seizure of asset.
I always amaze that so many US citizen seems to think this kind of thing is normal. Yeaaah, he is a bad guy lets find anything to put him in jail. US justice is sick.
NZ and USA are quite chummy. If the US really wanted to get him, they could just send a couple of agents and take him. And if the taxpayers are so damn upset about the cost of these court cases, then maybe they could...I don't know...drop the case or something. Nobody put a gun to our collective head, forcing us to hand our money over. Which is what the US appears to have done to Kim Dotcom. "Hey, we got your money. Come and get it!". Good old fashioned extortion.
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
This. And wait until the buyout is complete. You won't be able to recognize. Gonna be like Digg.
Our laws apply wherever we can target, which means everywhere.
Enjoy 4chan.
If the US really wanted to get him, they could just send a couple of agents and take him.
Agents? What are you talking about? You think they're going to send the CIA? Seal team 6? ;)
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
If the US really wanted to get him, they could just send a couple of agents and take him.
Agents? What are you talking about? You think they're going to send the CIA? Seal team 6? ;)
He's thinking that they could send Agents from the Matrix movie to get him. He doesn't realize they're all trapped in one of the Megaupload servers.
Hes delayed the trial so many times over so many petty reasons and cost the taxpayer millions in the process.
If getting a continuance on a court date costs millions of dollars for the taxpayers, I'd say the problem is with your judicial process, not with Kim Dot Com.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
This attitude is what is wrong with America. I am ashamed of my country.
I'm a Kiwi, and hes far from a saint.
Hes gone to all his court dates you say? Hes delayed the trial so many times over so many petty reasons and cost the taxpayer millions in the process. He tried to bribe his way into our government system, so that during our last elections if his tiny internet party got into power, his party would veto any extradition order.
Hes defenality a fugitive to us law. There is nothing stopping him from going to the US. And our nz law has decreed he should go. But hes refusing and tying up the courts to avoid doing so.
You think that someone exercising all their legal options is a fugitive?
Lemme guess - we should do away with trials altogether and simply see if they float on water, right?
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
More like Men in Black. Going by the name and shape of the guy, there's definitely more than one illegal alien hiding in there :-D
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence