| After
Woman Charged
With Threats
to NYC NGO
Gets Time
Served
Restitution
Ridiculed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 2 –
Back
on March 12,
2019 the US
Department of
Justice
announced that
"Kim Anh Vo,
a.k.a. “F@ng,”
a.k.a.
“SyxxZMC,”
a.k.a. “Zozo,”
a.k.a.
“Miss.Bones,”
a.k.a. “Sage
Pi,” a.k.a.
“Kitty Lee,”
was arrested
this morning
in Hephzibah,
Georgia.
Vo was charged
by a criminal
Complaint with
conspiring to
provide
material
support to the
Islamic State
of Iraq and
al-Sham."
The complaint
cited "a
photograph of
Victim-l's
chief
executive
officer and a
former U.S .
Ambassador
("Victim-1
,CEO"), along
with the
words:
"[Victim-1
CEO] we
will
take [the
Victim-1
Twitter
Account] down
Inshallah."
Victim-1 was a
NYC based NGO
which, after
Vo plead
guilty, wanted
$176,000 in
restitution
for cyber
defense moves
it said she
had made them
take.
When
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Noami Reice
Buchwald
sentenced Vo
on February
23, 2023 -- to
time served,
she was told
by the AUSA
that "the
non-profit
organization
impacted by
the conspiracy
is seeking
approximately
$176,000 in
restitution."
Judge
Buchwald said,
"Well, that's
fine as far as
it goes, but
that's not
supported by
anything. So I
hardly know if
the number is
right in and
of itself, and
whether it is
also
appropriate
essentially to
ask Ms. Vo to
bear the
entire cost of
whatever
defensive
measures this
organization
took is sort
of a separate
question, I
think,
probably worth
some
briefing...you
can't
answer that in
an anodyne
way? OK. Just
skip it."
The
case is US v.
Vo, 19-cr-223
(Buchwald)
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