UPDATE: Hijacker of 'Sex.com' Is Arrested
Update:
I' ve just found out a distressing bit of news from Kieran McCarthy's blog where he says the LA Times plagarized his story on this, which he filed first this this morning with The Register.
Kieran's storyin El Reg is here.
Earlier:
Richard Marosi and Joseph Menn write in The L.A. Times:
Four years after dodging a $65-million court judgment by fleeing the country, former online-porn mogul Stephen Michael Cohen was arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana and handed over Thursday to U.S. agents.
Cohen, a multiple felon and longtime con man, had been on the run since before 2001, when a judge ordered him to pay a San Francisco entrepreneur for hijacking the Internet address Sex.com. In 1995, Cohen forged a letter to Internet authorities to gain control of the address, which he transformed into a highly profitable site for pornography ads.
Cohen, who had been living in a Tijuana mansion, was arrested on an immigration violation by Mexican authorities and turned over to agents of the U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Marshals Service, according to Deputy Marshal Tania Tyler.
Cohen was being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego.
His apprehension was the latest twist in one of the most bizarre and longest-running feuds of the dot-com explosion.
posted by Fergie @ 10/28/2005 03:42:00 PM
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