Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 9 May 91 09:24:15 GMT From: Charles Bryant Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Message-ID: Organization: Datacode Communications Ltd, Dublin, Ireland Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 350, Message 4 of 10 Lines: 19 In article kddlab!lkbreth.foretune.co. jp!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) writes: > This swine was using the telephone to blatantly defraud people in a > callous and totally inexcusable way, and I hope he gets a day in jail > on each of the 50,000 counts, served CONSECUTIVELY. I'll admit, he > was an ingenious swine, but that's beside the point. Perhaps we need a sense of proportion. That's 136 years. I don't see how he could be given a more severe sentence. That would mean that you consider it as bad as if he had murdered all of the people he defrauded. Note that it was inevitable that he would be caught so there is no need for a huge penalty to serve as a deterrent to others. A fine should be perfectly adequate. Charles Bryant (ch@dce.ie)