Dave Foley pleads GUILTY

[Sectorseven]

Isn't Dave Foley the SNL character who lives in a van down by the river???

 

[Jojo With Tha Fl]

Isn't Dave Foley the SNL character who lives in a van down by the river???

That's Matt Foley

 

[DarrenA]

Well now, doesn't that leave kind of an open window here? Who actually OWNS the code?
Global or Foley?
So with that said, who wants to form a coalition to make a bid for the code of the UC machines?
I will contact Global VR and see just what they "own" and what if anything they would be willing to sell. Someone else contact Foley.
The OS is out because that was never his or theres, that is another 3'rd party's.
So EMU code, security (Key generator), and game file data would be in the offer.....
I am in, as I can not get many of my "legally" purchased game packs installed again after a HHD crash.
Lets see packs cost 250.00 to 500.00 each, Total waste of money, about a grand......

 

[chuchunesme]

Why would you get rid of it? All you had to do was reformat the drive with linux/windows and a MAME front end or a 9823094829384-1 board and you had a perfectly good multi-machine.

The OS was not his OS

I researched it and didn't want to deal with any hardware issues, it was worth more for me to sell it as is and build my own MAME system anyway.

 

[cointech]

UltraCade's David Foley Offers Details On Guilty Plea

in todays vending times

http://www.vendingtimes.com/ME2/dir...91&tier=4&id=04E5A379F43F4E5F8D22EEF67D9F1A30

 

[cointech]

Foley gets 2 years in prison

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-game-tech-gets-2-years-in-prison-for-secret-5163963.php

 

[FrizzleFried]

 

[chuchunesme]

I love the little $5000 fine tacked on at the end. You admit to defrauding a company out of millions and get a $5000 fine, yeah, he got a couple years too but will most likely serve a small fraction of that anyway. The funny thing is all the multi boards floating around have defrauded the original rom owners out of a million times more and nothing happens to them.

 

[LUCKYMAN]

He'll be out way before that.. 9 months ... the rest in parole.. without a doubt

 

[FrizzleFried]

Federal prison time is different than regular ole prison. You can only earn like 58 days per year for good behavior. Dude is in for at least 1.75 years...

EDIT:

Good conduct time, good time credit, or time off for good behavior is a sentence reduction given to prisoners who maintain good behavior while imprisoned. Good time can be forfeited if a prisoner is determined to have committed disciplinary infractions and/or crimes while incarcerated.
Under U.S. federal law, prisoners serving more than one year in prison get 54 days a year of good time for every year they serve. Thus, a prisoner who is sentenced to 419 days (365 + 54 days) in prison will only serve about 365 days. Thus, prisoners who demonstrate good behavior only serve about 87.1% of their total sentences. Some prisoners have argued that prisoners should only serve about 85.2% of their sentences, because (365 − 54) ÷ 365 ≈ 85.2%, but the statute empowers the Bureau of Prisons to make the calculation, and the Bureau has determined that the 87.1% rate is to be used. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld this rate as valid.

SO... 2 years being 730 days... 87.1% of that is 635.83 days rounded up to 636 days... or 1.742 years... I guess my estimation above was pretty accurate.

 

[tbbk]

I love the little $5000 fine tacked on at the end. You admit to defrauding a company out of millions and get a $5000 fine, yeah, he got a couple years too but will most likely serve a small fraction of that anyway. The funny thing is all the multi boards floating around have defrauded the original rom owners out of a million times more and nothing happens to them.

Well, they might actually get the $5000. He would probably never be in the position to pay the millions.

 

[chuchunesme]

Federal prison time is different than regular ole prison.

So he's going to the Federal "pound me in the ass" prison?

 

[ninedayfall75]

Federal prison time is different than regular ole prison. You can only earn like 58 days per year for good behavior. Dude is in for at least 1.75 years...

EDIT:



SO... 2 years being 730 days... 87.1% of that is 635.83 days rounded up to 636 days... or 1.742 years... I guess my estimation above was pretty accurate.

I work for a local LE agency. They may get 636 days, but due to prison overcrowding they also get 1 day credit for each day of time served as well (non-violent crimes). So that will drop it to 318 days. If he has been incarcerated during the trial, then those days will be credited as time served as well.

 

[ringwar]

I know a guy that spent 9 months in Federal prison for mail fraud. No fences, just a sidewalk around the prison, you step off the sidewalk even by accident you go to real prison. He made well over 2 million stealing semi loads of stuff from companies by ordering under fake names and not paying. His restitution was like 25k. He laughed all the way to the bank.