Convicted spammer dies in murder suicide

[Dan Hollis]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Mike Andrews W5EGO wrote:
> In happier (for us, not for him) news, Robert Soloway was sentenced
> last week to 27 months in Federal prison. The defense had asked for 2
> years, the prosecution for 6, and the maximum if the judge had chosen
> to throw the book at him was 26 years. He has about 55 days to report
> to prison.

47 months not 27.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008066608_websoloway23m.html

In addition to roughly $700k in criminal fines, he owes around $18 million 
in civil judgements against him.

One could argue that anyone who spams is not sane to begin with.

-Dan