uh... we are a source that was murdered by suicide less it was very clear his
depression was situational
and not biological you'd used up all is well finished parents were about to
mortgage their house for attorney fees
it's just disgusting to me especially since they were warned about his
emotional state so let him go to the uh...
yeah this is um...
this is uh... the other part of the story that is if you know becoming clear
is that
supports
had a basically dried out most of his cash from uh... read it
hiring multiple lawyers to deal with this
uh... i hadn't heard about it as parents having to mortgages house
there was talk of him trying to raise money in the community which you have a
lot to do but there was a freer
that this will become
upset
the judge in the case
who had a tremendous amount of discretion so there was
the calculation was you gotta go through this trial and just hope it works out
because there there is a big prosecutorial overreach here
it turns out that the prosecutor
stephen hammond
assisting huge united states attorney
who was part of this prosecution
um...
who is completely unwilling to compromise
they apparently come very close to deals and mikey supposedly prevented one of
the uh... deals that would allow him to step probation
and um...
to go through
apparently back in twenty two thousand eight
jonathan james
killed himself after being named a suspect in another
case
prosecuted by stephen hammond
he was the first juvenile to be put into kentucky confinement for a federal
cybercrime case
who was found to be uh... dead two weeks after the secret service raided his
house is part of an investigation
of the t_j_ x hacker case led by hand
in his suicide note james wrote that he was killing himself in response to the
federal investigation
and their attempts to tie into a crime which he did not commit
and no faith in the justice system perhaps my actions today in this letter
will send a strong a message to the public
either way i've lost control of the situation
and this is my only way to regain control
remember you wrote this now whether you win or lose its whether i win or lose
and sitting in a jail for twenty ten or even five years for a crime writing
commit for me is not winning i got a free
hannan receive the attorney general's worker distinguished service
for directing the largest and most successful identity theft hacking
investigation prosecution ever conducted by the united states
so this guy um...
obviously was rewarded
for this type of stuff
kevin column in the globe
um...
writes the argument about whether prosecutors should minutes estimates
were to a great no openly movingly about a struggle with depression serve at
least six months in prison
is not an academic question
is a question about the portion ality and humanity
and on both fronts the office of the u_s_ attorney carmen ortiz in the
prosecutors who handled or if this case
steve hammond and scott garland failed miserably
any goods any good sources initial lawyer
is alternative uh... alternately sad and furious
the thing the calls me as i told him in the kid was a suicide risk
his reaction was a stand a reaction in that office not unique stevie said fine
will lock 'em up
i'm not saying they made and kill himself and might have done this anyway
i'm saying they were aware of the risk and they were heedless
sports in his lawyers are now looking for a free pass that offered to accept a
deferred prosecution a probation
so this works pulled a stunt like that again he would end up in prison
marty weinberger took the case over from good setting nearly negotiated a plea
bargain in which supports would not serve any time
he said restore signed off on it
but m_i_t_ would not
i mean this is clearly
an attempt
to send a message to a community
using this one individual
who did nothing to
really create any real hard
uh... simply broke the terms of usage
that m_i_t_ imposed on people use that's wifi
trespassed in a uh... closet which apparently those charges were not even
now filed her maintain
using him as an example so that the government could show
their capacity to destroy someone's life
and they succeeded
they succeeded
their plan may not have been to uh...
two forces arran to commit suicide but their plan was clearly to destroy his
life in send a message and they succeed