Criminal
Aug. 11, 2000
Top Executive Ditches Prison Time in Exchange for Software
Patrick J. Naughton, a darling of the dot-com scene until he was caught trying to have sex with an undercover government agent posing as a 13-year-old girl he met in a chat room, escaped prison Wednesday because he wrote software programs to help the FBI catch pedophiles on the Internet.




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