I'm going to call this one a victory, and I hope he learns his lesson, spends a decent amount of time in jail, and never does it ever again.

I can be sure of the first thing, but not of the next three. Recidivism rates are extremely high in many types of crime, and I'm slightly cynical.

+1 for an imminent visit to Federal PMITA Prison...

No death penalty?

I'm kidding. However, I do think white collar crime is prosecuted way too lightly. He won't serve 25 years, and if he does it's not enough.

serves him right. he's too fucken lazy to come up with a plan to i don't know.... actually work and earn money, but not lazy enough to brew up an idea of stealing credit card numbers.

@The Marionette: Well, when you steal that amount of information you would have to sell it (it's a safe bet that he did, but I don't know for sure). Also, he probably had to be fairly clever or at least extremely goddamn lucky to get all that data in the first place. While some people will spend weeks trying to copy a homework paper or something similar rather than spending the time to do the work aren't all that lazy on general (kind of how you pointed out), but rather, as with this man here, misspent their time and talent doing the stupid thing.

It does have to do with laziness to some extent, but yeah he had to have spent a lot of time and effort doing what he did. Now he'll have plenty of time to think about it in prison.

@tbax929: Yeah...he got away with those Federal Prosecutor firings so this is at least a small win.

errr...

Picture the possibilities. They put him in a cell with Madoff and the two of them hatch a Ponzi scheme involving credit cards. I have to get the script to Hollywood before it's too late.

@tbax929: It's funny about white collar crime because it often involves way more money than street crime but without the guns and violence (usually). Isn't it true that white collar crimes tend to be committed by middle class folks while street crimes tend to be committed by poor people? Maybe that is why the sentencing is so disparate? I don't know. Just wondering.

@Syncop8d1:
That's what I've always thought. Wanda Sykes did a routine about how she doesn't cross the street to avoid gangbangers; she crosses to avoid dudes in suits. Because they can rob her of her future, which is worse than robbing her of some money she has now.