| Hacker of DraftKings Asked
for Year and a Day Now Gets 30
Months As US Wanted 46
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 16 – A man who
pled guilt to hacking accounts
on "a sports betting site" -
DraftKings - is up for
sentencing on April 16.
His defense
lawyer is asking for a year
and a day, to allow "good
time" credit, while
acknowledging that while out
on pre-trial release he
downloaded Telegram and got
remanded to the Essex County
Correctional Facility.
The
original complaint described
credential stuffing attacks,
and the defendant selling
access to victim
accounts.
The US Attorney's
Office wrote in and asked for
46 months imprisonment.
On April 16
Stokes was sentenced to 30
months in prison.
The
sentencing was by U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Senior Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald, whose proceedings
Inner City Press often covers.
The case is USA
v. Stokes, 1:24-cr-259
(Buchwald)
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