Prosecutors, Ex-AOL engineer strike plea

08:30 - Tuesday 21 December 2004 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: prosecutors Category : Miscellaneous

Federal prosecutors and a former America Online software engineer have negotiated a tentative plea agreement over charges he stole more than 92 million e-mail addresses and sold them to Internet spammers, according to two people familiar with the case.

Jason Smathers, 24, of Harper’s Ferry, W.Va., is scheduled to appear Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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