The "spam king" was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals.
Robert Soloway, the man known as the spam king for the massive volume of spam he sent out, pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming and tax evasion after being indicted in May 2007. After an unusually long sentencing hearing lasting two-and-a-half days, Judge Marsha Pechman handed down her sentence in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle.
he maliciousness, the harassment techniques, the high level of spamming activity that we have in this case," said assistant U.S. attorney Kathryn Warma.

By PAUL SHUKOVSKY US District Judge Marsha Pechman ended the reign of the so-called "Spam King," who earned his title by sending out millions of unwanted

By KOMO Staff & News Services SEATTLE - A man defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was sentenced Tuesday to just under four years in prison.
Prosecutors had asked that Robert Soloway - dubbed the "Spam King" by federal investigators - be sentenced to years, but the judge said available sentencing guidelines made it difficult.
ges to advertise his company, which offered software to send out broadcast e-mails. For $495 customers could have an ad sent to 20,000,000 e-mails, or receive software allowing them to send up to 80,000,000 e-mails.

SEATTLE -- A judge is expected to hand down a sentence for a Seattle man known as the "Spam King" this afternoon. Robert Soloway, who investigators said