Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree.
Gonzalez, 29, admitted last year that he and accomplices hacked into TJX, Office [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/gonzalez-plea-withdrawal/