If my suspicions are correct, then 'Josh'ss message is more notable not as evidence of growing incivility, but of a much more sinister product of internet communications: fraud".
The cruder kinds of electoral fraud, relying on poor communications between the capital and the boondocks, are now much harder.
Vitaly Borker, 36, who owned and operated DecorMyEyes from his home in Sheepshead Bay, pleaded guilty in May 2011 to charges of fraud and sending threatening communications.
The operator of an online eyeglasses store — with the perverse idea that terrorizing his customers would generate Internet publicity about his business and improve his Google search ranking — was sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of fraud and sending threatening communications, writes David Segal, who profiled the man, Vitaly Borker, in 2010.
A1 Executive Deals Questioned Even as the government looks for evidence of accounting fraud at the troubled communications company Global Crossing, some analysts are shaking their heads over the apparently legal ways the company's executives were able to walk away with personal fortunes.
So far that's included intercepting electronic communications, immigration fraud, and even grooming young women as potential sex partners for Raniere but not the plot to jail his ex girlfriends in Mexico.
He pleaded guilty to sending threatening communications and to mail fraud and wire fraud.
The online eyeglasses seller who terrified customers in the hopes of creating buzz about his Web site, and raising its profile in Google searches, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of sending threatening communications, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.
Evidence that an Ergo employee misrepresented himself during his investigation, Rakoff found, "provides a reasonable… basis to suspect that a fraud occurred and that Uber's communications may have been in furtherance of it".
"The way you get more hunting dogs showing up is you feed them," said Patrick Burns, communications director at Taxpayers Against Fraud, the legal industry group that sponsored the conference.
Rules vary regarding communications, relationships, transactions, taxes, contracts, fraud and expectations.
