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Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio did that when it was blatantly illegal - he's serving a six year prison sentence now.

• shrikant 13y ago
  This implies he was chucked into prison for refusing to hand over data to the US government, which is misleading at best. He was imprisoned for insider trading, appealed on the basis that a witness's testimony (relating to the data-grab) was excluded from his defence, and won a re-trial where he had his conviction and sentence re-instated. My understanding of this sequence of events is that while the witness was improperly excluded from his trial (thereby allowing him a re-trial), it did not materially alter anything about the 19 counts of insider trading of which he was convicted. So basically he did a good thing, then did a bad thing, and went to prison for the bad thing. Seems all right.
  • nmridul 13y ago
    That is exactly what happens when you fight the powerful. You don't go to jail for fighting. You go in for something else that is entirely disconnected. It could even be a rape case (Yes, I'm talking about Assange)
    • malandrew 13y ago
      And that is exactly the problem with PRISM. It gives people in power the ammunition to find you guilty of some unrelated crime if you challenge them. “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” - Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin's secret police