Aaron Swartz, the 26yo internet activist who recently committed suicide because he was facing the prospect of 50 years in prison on federal charges, would have received a stern warning from the state prosecutors who first charged him. It looks as though ambitious federal prosecutors then got involved, according to a report in
Cnet.
State prosecutors who investigated the late Aaron Swartz had planned to let him off with a stern warning, but federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz took over and chose to make an example of the Internet activist, according to a report in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
