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Computer Hacker Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Fraud In Federal Court

By Altman & Altman

Albert G., the 28-year-old gentleman from Miami (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) who had been charged with being a computer hacker agreed to plead guilty in Boston's federal court last week. His attorney, however, still disagrees with prosecutors about his role in the hacking. Yesterday, his attorney still insisted that he was not the ?ringleader? in the, now nationally known, scheme which has been described as one of the largest payment-card thefts in recent history. The Defendant has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he helped engineer the theft of more than 40 million card numbers from retailers like TJX Cos Inc and BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. Of course, that?s just in Boston. Last month, in New Jersey, the U.S. Justice Department charged him and two others with conspiring to steal another 130 million payment card numbers, the most ever...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).