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Dun dun dun! As you may have heard, this morning Larry Mendte pled guilty to one count of illegally accessing email. Dun dun dun!
Mendte had no comment as he emerged from the courtroom, but his wife, Fox29 anchor Dawn Stensland, said, “I love my husband, and he’s a good man.” During the 35-minute proceeding, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Levy recounted the government’s evidence and said that Mendte hacked into Lane’s email accounts more than 500 times between January and May of this year.
“To your knowledge, is everything he said accurate and correct?” asked McLaughlin. “Yes,” replied Mendte, who was in court with his defense attorney Michael Schwartz.
Mendte told the judge that he was “a little nervous, your honor, but I feel okay” as she sought to make sure that Mendte wanted to plead guilty and was legally competent to do so. He said that he has “seen a therapist since this happened” and has been prescribed Ativan but rarely takes it.
Larry Mendte is on benzos! (Lorazepam, better known by the brand name Atvian, is a benzodiazepine — a downer, if you want to get less technical.) Mendte on benzos is totally not going to be able to hack into anybody’s email accounts. Let’s just hope he’s not “rarely” taking it because he’s trading it on the black market for email address passwords.
Mendte pleads guilty [Inquirer]
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