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E-Mails to Gates Lead to Indictment
From: mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:56:02 -0600
From: <waste () zor hut fi> http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/1999/oct/15/101500270.html October 15, 1999 E-Mails to Gates Lead to Indictment ASSOCIATED PRESS WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A teen-ager was indicted Friday on extortion charges for allegedly threatening to bomb the headquarters of IBM and Microsoft unless each company paid him $5 million. The threats came in e-mails addressed to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and IBM Chief Executive Officer Lou Gerstner. If convicted on both counts, 18-year-old Jahair Joel Navarro of New York could be sentenced to 40 years in prison. When he was first arrested in August, he was charged with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a penalty of life without parole. No bombs were ever found, said FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette. But a raid on the youth's apartment found literature on bomb-making and terrorism that had been downloaded to his computer, the indictment said. Navarro, a Panamanian with permanent resident status, allegedly sent the bomb threats in August to Gerstner at IBM headquarters in nearby Armonk and to Gates at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Navarro is to be arraigned Wednesday. ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM
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