As unethical and outright illegal Lehel’s behavior is, one can’t help but find it interesting that the feds are pursuing his case out of all people’s so zealously. After all, there are plenty of crooks and mischief-makers here who pose a demonstrably more significant threat to the US than he does. Could it be because he made a certain former First Lady and Secretary of State look bad?
“Lehel was indicted by the Department of Justice in 2014 on charges of wire fraud, unauthorized access to a protected computer, cyberstalking, aggravated identity theft and obstruction of justice.
In 2014 a Romanian court sentenced to four years in jail for hacking into the accounts of the country’s public figures “with the aim of getting… confidential data” as well as violating his parole. He is serving three years on top of that for other hacking-related offenses. After his extradition to the US, Lehel will return to Romania to serve out his sentences there.
The Romanian national, who goes by the pseudonym “Small Fume” in addition to Guccifer, is an unemployed taxi driver and paint salesman, and he says that he accessed the emails by using social engineering methods that included guessing the answers to security questions to access various accounts.
“I don’t oppose. I go there to United States to fight. I know what I did and this is okay with me,” Guccifer said in February to The Smoking Gun, where he published many of the documents he found.
Prosecutors have said that Lehel has a “compulsive need to be famous,” according to The Register.”
Source: RT
Great
Hillary will make sure she’s dad before she can testify