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U.S. v. KOUTSOSTAMATIS

No. 18-20594.

956 F.3d 301 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George KOUTSOSTAMATIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed April 15, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paula Camille Offenhauser , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lauretta Drake Bahry , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Carmen Castillo Mitchell , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Marjorie A. Meyers , Federal Public Defender, H. Michael Sokolow , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before ELROD, WILLETT, and OLDHAM, Circuit Judges.

George Koutsostamatis worked for BP. He posed as a hacker and threatened to release sensitive information unless BP paid him a fortune in cryptocurrency. BP contacted the FBI, and the FBI asked BP to help identify the purported hacker. BP used its own digital security team and outside contractors to do just that...

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