selling it on Ebay
for six figures. This evening I received
word from one of the victims, Albert Angel, that
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram
indicted Goncalves today for that hijacking, the
first known instance of a domain thief being
indicted on criminal charges. You can read the
Attorney General's entire press release about
the indictment here
(PDF document).
It turned out that
Goncalves picked the worst possible people to
try to steal from. Marc Ostrosky is an
industry pioneer (who sold Business.com
in a deal valued at $7.5 million) and Albert
Angel is a noted attorney and former Justice
Department prosecutor who wasn't going to
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