Black paedophile jailed, white hacker paedophile not charged
A US JUDGE wants to know why a white hacker found with shedloads of kiddie porn on his computer was not charged with the crime.
US District Judge Michael Baylson was so stunned by prosecution antics that he stuck white Ryan Goldstein next to a black defendant who could have gone to jail for a decade.
University of Pennsylvania senior Ryan Goldstein, 22, of Ambler, was sentenced to three months in prison and five years of probation for a hacking scheme that caused a Penn engineering school server to crash in 2006.
Black man Derrick Williams faced eight to 10 years in prison for child pornography in an unrelated case.
The judge stuck the pair together as a way of indicating his dissatisfaction with the prosecution's antics.
Both men were found with several thousand images of child pornography on their computers and each had copied some of the images. The only difference was that Williams had also posted about 15 of them on a web site. That and the fact that Williams was black and Goldstein was white. Goldstein also burgered up millions of people's computers in a bot net scam.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Levy said the decision not to charge for the child pornography was appropriate given his extensive cooperation in the hacking case.
District Judge Michael Baylson said the sentencing disparities were not connected to race. Baylson gave Williams a two-year prison term, noting his steady work history and minor criminal record.
Goldstein pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and apparently spent long hours helping the FBI investigate a worldwide hacking enterprise, as prosecution and defence lawyers had requested.
However Judge Baylson noted that even as he was cooperating, Goldstein twice engaged in unspecified mischief with FBI computers which was very detrimental to the investigation.
Goldstein worked with a Kiwi teen Owen Thor Walker, known by the online name "AKILL," who was also given a lighter sentence by Kiwi courts on the condition that he help coppers solve computer crimes down under. µ
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Not too hard to figure out.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Levy (Jewish)

University of Pennsylvania senior Ryan Goldstein (Jewish)

It happens all the time. Most of the time the Judge is Jewish too so no one notices. Like 90% of the dual citizen Israeli Americans that have hijacked our government in the US. When the crap hit's the fan they pledge their allegiance to Israel not the US and it shows.
Goldstein

Levy

You work out the rest.
Luke:

Keep telling yourself that kid just keep telling yourself that. Once you have kids do a little research on the subject. Anyways enough with Luke's nonsense... 

Bottom line they both had child porn on their machines so both should do serious time no questions asked. It's like when the cops catch someone trying to cross the border with kilos of drugs or catch a street dealer with a few grams on him & kilos at home. Yes, one has an added charge to his file but they both do serious time for a serious crime. What is more serious than child porn?

Anybody who has read anything on this subject knows that both guys are just as dangerous. People interested in that stuff almost never kick the habit so they feed the market. By this I mean, they will go online looking for more & more material meaning more kids are going to get abused so Mr. I never distributed the stuff can get his sick thrill. Did you ever think about the material itself? When Mr. I helped the authorities goes online again…he'll take more precautions & get fresh home made movies with fresh new victims. Put them both in jail for a very long time & kill the market! Geezz what is so hard to grasp about his?!?!?

Would anyone take it easy on Bin Laden's #2 guy if he cooperates & gives us Ben Laden? LOL …no cause both are just as guilty. One will stay n a nicer cell but they both do serious time.
Is it maybe because both the Assistant U.S. Attorney the white kid seem jewish? 
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But the black guy too also :PPPPPPPPPPP
Well you pointed it out in your article: The difference between these two is that one only DLed the kiddie porn, and helped out the enforcment agency, the other DISTRIBUTED kiddie porn. So who do you send to jail, the user who helped you, or someone who is getting involved in distribution? If you remove race from the picture and look at the facts they look a little more reasonable. But this America we are taking about, so desperate to prove how they are not racist that they in turn see everything in terms of race.
Ahem, a white Caucasian male by the name Goldstein (now why does that name make me think of religion ?) . . . and a black guy (in the USA, does it really matter what his name is ?).

One question : among the prosecution, was there any people of color ?

Thought not.
You would have an argument if they were identical, BUT THEY ARE NOT! So quit trying to play the race here.
Like drugs, if you are a user your sentence is going to be allot less than if you are a dealer.
I was trying to point out that race might not have been the reason the kids got different treatment, but that circumstances might have been. If you want to interpret that as me sanctioning kiddie porn then you can, you are entitled to your own opinion even if you are wrong. I do want to point out that most of my comment centered around the race aspect, but that's cool, just assume I am ok with kiddie porn people.
You'll be charged with 'public sanity on the internet' when you don't watch yourself luke, I think there's a mandatory 30 year sentence on that, that's after extradition to the US, if you are not from the US.
I don't think it's so much racism as much as the legal system bartering to get a bigger net of fish. That is how it works in any country.

Unfortunately, the real discriminator probably had more to do with money and class status since the fellow did come from an Ivy League school. Note the psychology defense too. By the article, the other guy's sentencing was based on his "steady work history and minor criminal record." So, I think the article implies more class discrimination rather than anything else.

Also, 15 pictures out of thousands sounds like a far cry of distribution. I think the sentence reflects that.

Basically, I wish (but won't hold my breath) that people wouldn't see a name and assume some sort of conspiracy without any proof. *sigh* This is the Internet though...