See Spamsuite for the various documents. In short, search warrants are being issued on various properties associated with Christopher William Smith in pursuit of the cash he withdrew from various bank accounts.

Among the places searched were a public storage unit in Washington, property in Minnesota,

Items to be seized include big piles of cash, business records, any correspondance about his businesses, phone books and telephone records, computers and disks, two rolex watches

Interestingly enough, the search also turned up 76 men’s coats, jackets and shirts, 27 pairs of shoes, 24 pairs of sunglasses and other retail items.

The Motion for Preliminary Order of Forfeiture is the most interesting read, as it details some of Rizler’s assets and the lengths he went to to hide them. The tale includes Rizler stuffing bundles of cash into cereal boxes and hiding them in the basement of his mother’s boat house.
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“There will always be people who try to make a campaign about make up, clothes, and now, even cleavage”

Senator Clinton during Monday night’s debate. So we were about to send the email with the subject “Cleavage” into our spam box when we noticed it was actually from Ann Lewis, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s … via The New York Times
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Last year I was exchanging e-mail with an aquaintance in Africa aboutsetting up web sites, who said:

I would be interesting to know what mistakes made in North America and how they were addressed.

The major mistake was to assume that the most important use of the net wasto distribute content from a relatively small set of sources out to themasses, and that the masses would pay for the privilege. In fact, peopleput a much higher value on one-to-one or one-to-few communication, and thenumber of content providers that successfully sell information can becounted on your fingers.See more …
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Anyone missed ” V Series”? A Being in the IT industry , i have been involved in fighting spam. via KuwaitBlogs
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“It’s the most sustained attack that we’ve seen. There’s been nine to 10 days straight days of attack at this level.”

The e-mail seems friendly enough, telling you that you’ve got an electronic greeting card from a friend, relative or co-worker. Gripped by the warm fuzzies, and with more than a touch of cluelessness, you click … via Houston Chronicle
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Well at least Bad Macro had company earlier this week - in the Google ‘bots zest to stamp out SPAM blogs they also took down The Bondad Blog . via The Mess That Greenspan Made
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