CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – A former Tennessee college student
convicted of hacking Sarah Palin’s e-mail account has reported to
an unfenced federal prison camp in Kentucky to begin his sentence.
A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said 23-year-old David
Kernell reported to the minimum security camp at Ashland, Ky., on
Monday to begin a yearlong sentence.
A Knoxville jury in late April convicted Kernell of unauthorized
access to a protected computer and destroying records to impede a
federal investigation. The jury acquitted him of wire fraud and
deadlocked on an identity theft charge.
The former Alaska governor and her daughter Bristol testified
that the hacking, followed by Kernell’s online bragging and
providing a password and Palin family telephone numbers to others,
caused them emotional hardship.
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