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back to article Mitt Romney tax-return 'hacker' Dr Evil gets four years in the slammer

Michael Mancil Brown, aka Dr Evil, has been sentenced to four years in prison and must pay $201,836 in damages after claiming he obtained the tax returns of one-time presidential wannabe Mitt Romney. Back in 2012, Brown contacted various journalists, including us here at El Reg, boasting that he hacked into the servers of …

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  1. Matt Bryant Silver badge
    Meh

    Meh.

    "....the judge gave him just four years inside...." With "good behavior" (with today's prison overcrowding that seems to mean as long as he doesn't shiv anyone) he'll be out in less than three years. Still a silly boy though.

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      Punishment fits the crime?

      There was never any evidence he did hack PwC or at any point have the supposed tax returns.

      He tried and failed on a pretty idiotic fraud/extortion attempt.

      Deserves a few years inside for being a knucklehead, but is he any kind of real danger to society??

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  2. Omar Smith

    Romney consulting technique

    Didn't Romney one time work at Bain, they make their money as investor consultants, the technique goes something like this. Identify an underperforming company and get hired on as investor - consultants. Then have the company take out loans for restructing etc. Then sell on the company and have the new buyers take on the 'debt'. Bain then walks away with a tidy sum both from fees and its 'investment' in the old company, then wash, rince and repeat.

    | Bain & Company | Bain & Company |

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