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Convicted tax fraudster sues CNBC for defamation, says he's not a "hacker"
Daniel Rigmaiden wants the world to know that, while CNBC's American Greed television show may have portrayed him more than two years ago as a "hacker," a "recluse," and more, he is none of those things.
Earlier this year, Rigmaiden sued NBCUniversal, CNBC's parent company, and an Arizona Republic journalist shown in that episode, accusing them all of defamation.
Rigmaiden wants unspecified damages and also a permanent injunction that would stop further distribution of the episode, which is currently available on Amazon Video for $2.99.
Lawyers for CNBC have tried to get the case dismissed, and the two sides will face off in a Miami-Dade County courthouse on Monday, November 19.
In actuality, Rigmaiden is a man convicted of tax fraud who became a privacy activist—he has become something of an icon in surveillance-law nerd circles.
"Plaintiff did not use black-hat computer hacking to steal money from the IRS," he wrote. "Plaintiff used computer software to automate the process of filing fraudulent tax returns and collecting the refunds. The IRS was not hacked by Plaintiff, and Plaintiff otherwise did not use black-hat computer hacking to facilitate the tax-refund fraud scheme."
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday November 25 2018, @02:13PM (4 children)
Got a stray link at the beginning of that sentence.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 25 2018, @02:16PM
fixed, maybe that story is more interesting though
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday November 25 2018, @06:25PM (2 children)
404 to that link. And in spite of Takyon's following response...still 404.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday November 25 2018, @06:35PM (1 child)
I can understand how "stray link" can be accidentally inserted into a story. Usually lazy copy/pasta work. But why kill it also in WM's post?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:11PM
No, I did that, simpliest way to make it look like a link.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk