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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 hemocyanin on Monday November 26 2018, @12:08AM
I gave you an underrated above so now you're a +1 Troll. ;-)
I do agree with the sentiment that the media are inherently untrustworthy and manipulative -- I have a number of outfits in my /etc/hosts file so I can never accidentally give them traffic (NYT and WAPO being at the top of the list) -- and I basically view everything I read (I don't watch network news) as almost certainly inaccurate propaganda (the NYT helping launch the Iraq War being a prime modern example or the WAPO's 16 negative Bernie stories in 16 hours being another). As for CNN, what a bunch of scumbags: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/09/10/that-time-cnn-staged-a-fake-interview-with-a-syrian-child-for-war-propaganda/ [caitlinjohnstone.com]