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And jailed.

The Smoking Gun article speaks of federal prosecution. From a prosecutor's point of view, this may be one of the few incidences where the harsher penalties would come from the states. Sentencing under Virginia's anti-spam legislation would actually be worse. Conspiracy under the Virginia anti-spam statute could reach up to 20 years.

Perhaps because of the statute a conviction under the Virginia law would be harder to prove. This looks as though it could be pursued by prosecutors as a garden-variety conspiracy, though. It shouldn't be terribly difficult to prove intent, knowledge, etc.

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