The novella-like media release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, which just landed in our in-box, explains the case of Matthew Weigman, also known as the "Li'l Hacker." He's a blind 18-year-old "phreak" from East Boston who became infamous last year for his "quick telephone con jobs," as Wired put it in a profile that, as it turned out, only scratched the surface. The story's a complicated one involving threats made against a Verizon security officer who was hot on his trail, an attempt to
In July 2008, federal authorities arrested a Carrollton man named Joseph Kelly Lara, whom the feds had accused of creating a phony name (Nick DeAngelis Mancuso) and a fake job (securities attorney and investment professional), which he then used to sell securities (including Google stock) he claimed he owned but didn't. It was quite the complicated scheme: Lara went to Arizona to have his name legally changed to Mancuso (maybe he was just a fan of a particular Canadian character actor?), came ba
U.S. District Judge Barbara LynnMuch like Wednesday afternoon, I got another itch to sit in during the day's last couple hours of jury deliberations in the City Hall corruption case, but I was quickly disappointed upon seeing Don and Sheila Hill in the lobby of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse. Turns out the jury stopped deliberating at 1:30 p.m., and worse yet, the two co-defendants and their lawyers were banned from the 15th floor.
Victor Vital, Sheila Hill's attorney, told m
