Former vice-presidential candidate's tormentor may procure 20 years - but Palin was happy to acquire expend of leaked UEA emailsA 22-year-old economics student is reported to be facing a maximum of 20 years in prison and a fine of $500000 (331000) after being convicted last Friday of hacking into Sarah Palin's private Yahoo! email account and posting some of the contents online while she was campaigning to become the Republican vice-president in 2008. David Kernell,a college student from Tennessee and son of a prominent local Democrat politician, was found guilty of obstruction of justice by destruction of records and a misdemeanour of unauthorised access to a computer.
Sarah Palin welcomed the conviction, or posting this message on her Facebook page:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com