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Charged With Hacking JFK Taxi Dispatch
System Freed on Bond Now Wants No Jail
Time
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY MAG COURT,
Dec 20 - In the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on December 20, a detention or
bond proceeding was held by
Magistrate Judge Gabriel W.
Gorenstein on a man charged
with hacking into the taxi
assignment system at JFK
Airport.
Inner City Press
was present.
Earlier in
the day, the US Attorney's
Office announced "unsealing of
an Indictment charging DANIEL
ABAYEV and PETER LEYMAN with
two counts of conspiracy to
commit computer
intrusions. The
Indictment charges that ABAYEV
and LEYMAN hacked the
electronic taxi dispatch
system (the “Dispatch System”)
at John F. Kennedy
International Airport. ABAYEV
and LEYMAN conspired with
Russian nationals to hack the
Dispatch System and move
certain taxis to the front of
the line, in exchange for
payment."
The
Assistant US Attorney told
Judge Gorenstein his Office
agreed to release on bond of
$100,000, with computer
monitoring software, while
noting Leyman has an app on
his phone to check his
diabetes. Afterward, the case
was still listed as
Unassigned, though there was
mention of District Judge Paul
A. Crotty.
Lead- and
co-defendant Daniel Abayev was
also released on $100,000
bond.
Jump cut to
January 23, 2024 when
defendant Peter Lehman asked
for no jail time but home
confinement so that "the loans
on his taxi, taxi medallion
and delivery truck are not all
foreclosed on."
The case is US v.
Abayev, et al., 22-cr-655
(Crotty)
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