$236Million and $1Billion Awarded to Company for Spam Damage
Apparently, people can no longer hide behind their companies when local spam laws are broken. This is a case where a huge amount of money was awarded and must be paid by a husband and wife team whose business income was solely based on sending out spam email advertisements. Robert W. Kramer, III, owner and operator of CIS Internet Services, has received a $236 million dollar judgment against two individual defendants, Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok following trial for violation of Iowa’s anti-spam statute. The verdict was entered on September 30, 2008 in the United States District Court, Southern District of Iowa, Davenport Division, by Judge John A. Jarvey. Mr. Kramer was represented by Cedar Rapids attorney, Matthew L. Preston, with the Brady & O’Shea, P.C. law firm. The Court found that husband and wife Perez and Bartok sent over 23 million emails advertising mortgage loan refinancing services to CIS computers in 2003. Read the rest of this article>>