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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: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 25 2018, @04:50PM
I think it pretty safe to say that all hackers, black, white, or gray, hear "You can't do that", and they immediately ask "Why not?" Or, "You have to . . ." and the question is, "What if I don't?" "This goes that way." leads to "What if I put it this way instead?" They are always looking at things upside down, backwards, inside out, or kitty-corner. One and all, they refuse to think inside the box. Or, if they do play inside the box, they are busy slicing it into segments that were never intended, then rearranging those segments to their liking.
I think it all started with that monkey-man who brought fire home with him, and made a pet of it.