Prosecutor Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz

Monday morning the government filed one last motion in United States of America v. Aaron Swartz.

“Pursuant to FRCP [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] 48(a), the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, hereby dismisses the case presently pending against Defendant Aaron Swartz. In support of this dismissal, the government states that Mr. Swartz died on January 11, 2013.”

Kevin Poulsen

Kevin Poulsen is news editor of Wired.com and author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (Crown, 2011).

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