A Seattle man once known as the “spam king” was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 11 months in prison for mail fraud, e-mail fraud and tax evasion.
Robert Alan Soloway was arrested last summer. Prosecutors said he made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling so-called “broadcast e-mail services” and used networks of compromised computers to send out millions upon millions of junk e-mails.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman, who issued the sentence, will hold a hearing later to determine how much restitution Soloway must pay.
The Associated Press