Spammer Robert Soloway was sentenced to 47 months prison on July 22, 2008 for violations of the CAN-SPAM Act. It is only the second time an offender is sentenced under the statute. Prosecutors had asked for a 9 year sentence. Civil judgments against Soloway in 2005 didn’t stop him from spamming. That was probably due to the fact that the money that was awarded to Microsoft and an Internet Provider was never collected, and also because Soloway was optimistic that there would be a ‘loophole’ in the law that would prevent him from getting prosecuted.
Soloway was arrested on March 2008. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud, fraud in connection with e-mail, and tax evasion. Soloway was apparently a compulsive shopper, who owned among other luxury articles, 24 pairs of designer sunglasses.
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