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Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Battle To Recover Seized Assets (cnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the finders-keepers dept.

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.

8 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Well yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trump needs the money, to pay back his Russian loans....

    1. Re:Well yeah! by sit1963nz · · Score: 2

      Until he releases his tax returns...maybe not.

      Hell I can say that my "name" is worth 450 Trillion Dollars, that does not make it true.

      If you remove is over inflated ego and his misguided sense of worth from the equation, $45 Million may be more than what he's actually worth.

  2. Re:Throw away the key!!1 by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    He could be a cellmate of "Reality Winner".

  3. The headline is not consistent with the article. by ma1wrbu5tr · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:The headline is not consistent with the article by Gavagai80 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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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  5. Re:The headline is not consistent with the article by c-A-d · · Score: 2

    Welcome to the new world where using the legal system to even determine what your rights are classifies you as a fugitive.

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  6. Re:The headline is not consistent with the article by bradley13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  7. What's a label? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    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.

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