The insider sold 30 million AOL victims to spammers and worse. The Judge… plumbing the depths of Justice’s blindness… billed him just US$84,000 then shipped him off for a 15 month all-inclusive vacation.

As We the People will drop $32K in Jason Smathers-maintenance, the taxpayers’ theoretical profit… assuming Jason ponies up the fine… is $54,000. That’s a psuedo-gov’t profit of two tenths of a penny per AOL victim.

We’re tempted to add that, in addition to the $200,000 to $400,000 AOL’s sloppiness may cost stockholders, 30 million AOL victims have been robbed, passed around by scumbags and humiliated… but they’re used to it. Hizzoner Himself abandoned a spam-strangled AOL account.

Meanwhile, ever-awake Judge Siegel is considering issuing an Amber Alert for those missing email addresses. We’ll keep you posted.