Is a Little Saigon website owner a master code breaker guilty of stealing access to valuable commercial satellite TV broadcasts?
That's the question in this week's Moxley Confidential.
Dish Network is suing Westminster's Tan Minh Nguyen in federal court in Orange County and seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
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Nguyen, a 1978 boat refugee from communist Vietnam and an unemployed, single father of two young boys, claims he's innocent and the victim of a ruthless, giant corporation.
So
far, the company's lawyers have trampled over Nguyen, who is
representing himself in the case and facing potential $482,000 in
contempt of court penalties.
U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna
is also threatening to put Nguyen in jail next month for failing to
appear at scheduled hearings and fully complying with Dish Network
subpoenas.
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CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.