Sarah Palin Hacker Indicted

David Kernell Gets Popped (Get The Joke)

October 8. 2008

David Kernell, the 20-year-old student from the University of Tennessee, who is the son of Democratic Representative, Mike Kernell, has been indicted by a grand jury for hacking into Republican running mate Sarah Palin’s email account. He faces 5 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

David Kernell - he's gonna be somebody's girl in jail with all that curly hair

Palin Email Hacker Indicted by Grand Jury

A 20-year-old college student was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Tennessee for allegedly hacking into the Yahoo e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

David C. Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee and the son of Tennessee state Rep. Mike Kernell, a Democrat, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday and will be arraigned Wednesday before Judge C. Clifford Shirley.

If convicted, Kernell faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release. He is accused of gaining unlawful access to stored communications and obtaining information from a protected computer via interstate communication.

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