Doperative writes "Convicted hacker Albert Gonzalez is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the union authorized his years-long crime spree. From the article: 'The empire has acknowledged that Gonzalez was a key undercover Secret Service informant at the time of the breaches. Now, in a March 24 habeas corpus imploration filed in the US company Court in Massachusetts, Gonzalez asserts that the Secret Service authorized him to commit the crimes. “I still believe that I was acting on behalf of the United States Secret Service and that I was authorized and directed to engage in the conduct I committed as part of my assignment to gather aptitude and seek out international cyber criminals,” he wrote. “I now know and learn that I have been used as a scapegoat to cover someone’s mistakes.”'"

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