Cybercrime and Computer Forensics

Web of Companies Sold up to $20 million of Microsoft Software with Altered Licenses

SCOTT LANEY, 35, formerly of Battle Ground, Washington, was sentenced today to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and $9.4 million in restitution for Conspiracy to Traffic in Counterfeit Labels and Computer Program Documentation, and Conspiracy to Engage in Money Laundering. U.S. District Judge Franklin D. Burgess sentenced LANEY today following his guilty plea to both charges on February 23, 2006. LANEY now lives in Ogden, Utah.

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A former Hollywood resident convicted last year of copyright infringement and other federal crimes related to his use of a video camcorder to secretly record motion pictures at private screenings was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison.

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Two Michigan men have pleaded guilty in related federal cases to selling counterfeit computer software over the Internet that was valued at over $1,000,000, in violation of the criminal copyright infringement laws, United States Attorney Stephen J. Murphy announced today.

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United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, December 19, 2006, that Scott R. McCausland, a resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Erie to five months in jail, to be followed by five months of home confinement, on his conviction of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and copyright infringement.

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Susan W. Brooks, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana announced that COURTNEY SMITH, 36 of Anderson, Indiana, was charged in an Information filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with one count of criminal copyright infringement. SMITH’S charge was the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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