Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 16:53:32 GMT From: "William Vajk (igloo" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Whatever Happened to Rich Andrews? Reply-To: William Vajk Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 498, Message 9 of 9 Lines: 40 > [Moderator's Note: Now I am hearing from usually reliable sources that > Rich had been involved in some other (non-computer-related) malfeasance, > and the feds had no touble whatsoever getting him to work along on the > computer investigation in exchange for making life easier for him on > the other charges. I'm told he is completely out of the computer > scene at this time and happily intends to stay that way. He does not > wish to correspond with us. So be it. PAT] Having had only a smattering of dirt about other difficulties, I have scheduled research sessions at several courthouses to locate actual information and not disseminate rumors. It is a question regarding which of three possible counties causing me the momentary difficulty. Your comment regarding "no trouble whatsoever" isn't quite true, Pat. The feds went to the U. S. Magistrate and secured a search warrant. Rich didn't simply hand over his equipment because they wanted it (in spite of the fact that he gave such an impression in a phone conversation I had with him at that time.) I searched for the warrant and affidavits. It took two working days at the federal courthouse to locate and copy the information as the Magistrate's court in Chicago does not maintain an index of cases. I immediately faxed several pages to Len's attorney in Maryland and followed up by mailing a complete copy to them as the justification for the seizure of jolnet was based in part on information acquired in the Rose seizure and interrogation. At least Sheldon Zenner had the common courtesy to send a thank you note to me when I shared pertinent information he didn't have and needed. When you say that Rich is "completely out of the computer scene at this time" you must mean as a hobby, bbsing, and usenet participation. I doubt Rich is completely netless. He is, as reported to me by a former colleague of his within the past thirty days, in a computer consulting business in a two man office. Bill Vajk