San Diego GOP CHAIRMAN Co-Founded One Of World's Largest International Piracy Rings

[kpete]

Krvaric has also been appointed by California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring to head up the state party’s budget committee. RAW STORY's investigation reveals the California GOP has put an alleged pirate in charge of its treasure trove.

San Diego GOP chairman co-founded international piracy ring
Miriam Raftery
Published: Tuesday April 29, 2008

Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine – especially for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony Krvaric as its chairman?

Online research reveals that Krvaric is the co-founder of Fairlight, a band of software crackers which later evolved into an international video and software piracy group that law enforcement authorities say is among the world’s largest such crime rings. After co-founding Fairlight in Sweden, Krvaric established U.S. operations for the organization, including an arm headquartered in Southern California—a major center for the computer and video game industry.

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An e-mail sent anonymously this week to a conservative listserv operator in San Diego County revealed an attached document titled “The Secret Life of Tony Krvaric.” The attachment alleged that Krvaric, using the alias “Strider,” founded Fairlight “to illegally crack and distribute copyrighted software.” Fairlight evolved from “an adolescent obsession into a full fledged multinational criminal enterprise,” the e-mail claimed.

These allegations come as no surprise to RAW STORY, which has been researching Krvaric’s ties to Fairlight for some time.

much more about "Strider" at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/San_Diego_GOP_chairman_cofounded_international_0425.html

[annabanana]

1. They are running out of people who even have legit COVERS!

They have used up all the people who have pretend non-criminal lives and have had to fall back on plain old thugs and mobsters..

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. LOL!!!

FAIRLIGHT!!! I am grinnin' like a mule eatin' briars here. Them d00dZ were 1337!!!

I am telling you, there is a lot of younger repukes in the party hierarchy who came from shady backgrounds. The exciting and highly profitable field of cocaine dealing is one. The repukes have made it so damn easy for anyone with a pile o' dough to buy legitamacy and the cover of power, no matter how they made their money. They didn't care. Just keep them geets a'comin'.

The movie "Cocaine Cowboys", which is available over at Google Videos, lays it out.

[Jane Austin]

3. Ruh Roh

[Liberty Belle]

4. Here's how brazen this guy was:

Ever a buccaneer at heart, he even lists an e-mail address with his pirate nickname ([e-mail]) at his business listing under Tony Krvaric with the San Diego County Businesses directory. Krvaric provided the e-mail address [e-mail] in his League of Women Voters information materials when he ran for the San Diego Republican Party central committee in 2006. Running for reelection in 2008, Krvaric currently lists [e-mail] with the Registrar of Voters.

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