Tech CEO sentenced: Gregory Evans pleads guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud charges. (Digerati Update).On Feb. 2, 2002, Gregory Evans Gregory Thomas Evans, C.M., O.Ont., Q.C., LL.B., LL.D., K.C.S.G. (born 1913) is a Canadian former judge and commissioner. Born in McAdam, New Brunswick, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Joseph's University in 1934 and graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in celebrated his 33rd birthday. On Feb. 4, he was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison. "It's how life works," says the founder of Cyber Group Network Corp. in San Bernardino, California San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. San Bernardino's estimated population, as of 2006, is 205,010.[1] As of 2006, it was the 18th largest city in California, and the 100ed largest city in the United States. , and former Black Digerati The "digital elite." People who are extremely knowledgeable about computers. It often refers to the movers and shakers in the industry. Digerati is the high-tech equivalent of "literati," which refers to scholars and intellectuals, or "glitterati," the rich and famous. (see "Going Legit," Techwatch, July 2001). After entering a guilty plea, Evans was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $9 million in restitution for federal conspiracy and wire fraud against AT&T and MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. . The charges stemmed from an FBI investigation in 1997 and alleged that Evans obtained more than 125 toll-free lines for which he never paid. He then resold the numbers to ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. start-ups. In 1999, U.S. District Judge Mariana g. Pfaelzer entered a default judgment for more than $24 million and ordered Evans to pay $7,500 in fines. Mark Zmigrodski, manager for AT&T's Toll Fraud Management Organization, says, "Since this case, AT&T has developed and implemented finely tuned thresholds to network algorithms for certain call patterns, significantly enhancing our ability to detect and prevent this type of fraud." He also says that AT&T is satisfied with the $9 million restitution, but he expected a longer jail sentence because hundreds of ISP's and thousands of home users were affected. Evans, who will be released on Jan. 7, 2003, recently contracted with the FutureShop chain in Canada to sell his Password Protection Information Retrieval Technology (www.ppirt.com). |
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