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Unseen is 100% correct. Just remember before you jump for joy on this - that the guy got over 100 times the sentence what most murderers spend in prison.
The federal system is unforgiving. People do not understand this. They base sentences off amounts of products & money in this thing called the federal sentencing guidlines. It is very dangerous - becuase the gov't can get you for a technicality.
Many people could already easily be charged with violating federal law with the promotion of the porn sites. You ever say a girl is on a site who isn't - or stuff like that? The FTC can go after you for deceptive trade practices. Then they charge you with conspiracy along with the adult company. Then you go to jail based off the amount of money produced in total. And trust me - it will be decades before you get out.
I am not saying they will do this, but the feds have been given way to many powers. Here is one example - true story:
Delivery Driver is told take a package to a clinic - his boss makes a joke about not getting high on the stuff. Guy is curious and pulls over and opens the package - it is methadone. He takes a small swig. Now according to my attorney - (who represented this guy) methedone is very potent in its concentrated form. He passes out. The police find him in his truck on the side of the road with the methadone. They arrest him.
Well how do the guidelines work - well in this case they converted it into what they considered an equal amount of heroin. It was so much that the gov't dropped the charges "in the interests of justice" because he would have been at the kingpin level and spent the rest of his life in jail.
There was a late night TV real estate person that recently got royally screwed too. So before you get to happy - these are the same types of thing they may someday use to come after you.
Note, I don't think this will happen, but it could....
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