Judiciary Report - Man Admits Hacking Computer Of Alycia Lane

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Man Admits Hacking Computer Of Alycia Lane

August 25. 2008

Alycia Lane (right)

In a case that captured the press and public's attention in several countries, Larry Mendte, a Philadelphia newscaster, recently admitted he hacked into the computer of his glamorous on air rival, Alycia Lane, almost 600 times.

The confession is most likely apart of a plea deal with the FBI/DOJ, who investigated the case and discovered him breaking the law. Hacking is a serious crime that constitutes a felony.

Mendte, additionally leaked Lane's private emails to whoever he felt like, including the press, who began printing items from them.

In doing so, not only did he violate anti-hacking laws, he also breached attorney client privilege, in accessing communications between Lane and her lawyer.

Rich Eisen and wife

Mendte leaked an email to the press that contained bikini pictures Lane had sent to, Rich Eisen, a famous ESPN anchor, who coincidentally is married. This didn't sit too well with his wife, who intercepted the pictures and sent Lane a sarcastic response.

Mendte, then illegally leaked the entire thing to the press. The story was subsequently and unlawfully carried in many papers. The blogs ran with the item as well.

Mendte, a jealous anchorman, who disliked the fact that his younger, good looking rival was gaining popularity, and then higher wages, sought to destroy her, and set out on a vindictive, illegal campaign, that caused her to lose her job through a series of sad events he set in motion. She then had to put her home on the market.

Some people are insecure and neurotic, and can't stand it when someone they view as having more talent or appeal progresses ahead of them, but that's life. Your response to that should be to work harder, not deviously try to destroy someone.

Larry Mendte (left) and Alycia Lane (right)

But as the Bible says, "You reap what you sow." The very thing Mendte tried to do to Lane has befallen him. Not only has he lost his job with no recourse, he has been indicted and is facing jail.

Lane has sued the station station stating, "They treated her as if she was paranoid" when she complained to them that her emails were "getting passed around."

I can sympathize with Lane on what transpired. Before this Lane story broke, I too complained to the FBI and on my website about my business computers being hacked on a daily basis, by individuals we later found out to be Madonna's website team for Madonna.com at Digilink. Two separate computer companies also rated the hacks as "severe" and "critical" with one of them even witnessing one of the intrusions with his own eyes and documenting it.

On Madonna's instructions, for misdeeds she has paid them for, not only has Digilink illegally hacked my computers and passed her unlawfully made copies of my Copyrighted Catalog, containing 10,000 songs, 300 movie scripts and short stories, 15 book manuscripts, 200 music video treatments, 500 photographs, 150 photo treatments, a perfume line and clothing line, that she has criminally used without permission and passed around the music industry like animals and savages, they accessed all my emails and sent her copies of those as well.

Then that depraved woman, Madonna, started repeating verbatim, items from my private emails that I sent to my dad, who is a Justice of the Peace in Jamaica (government), and she further utilized communications between me and my attorneys, repeating them in her later conducted interviews, but attributing it to herself, which was stupid and very incriminating.

Just nasty! You've got to be out of your mind to go out in public dressed like that thinking that looks good. Is there any wonder the blogs are mocking her all the time stating she looks "terrible" and like a man. Gross!

People are sometimes under the impression that famous people don't do such things, but as evidenced by the Alycia Lane case, they do. As evidenced by the Anthony Pellicano criminal trial, they do.

We live in a digital age and sadly, people with no conscience, are abusing technology for crooked ends and to terrorize those they see as rivals and adversaries for whatever reason. There's no excuse, as it's all illegal.

Some crazy people let greed, jealousy and covetousness get the better of them and do sick things to others that never should be undertaken by anyone claiming to be a decent human being.

Fired Philly TV anchor admits e-mail hacking

PHILADELPHIA - A fired TV newscaster admitted Friday that he hacked into his co-anchor's e-mail accounts, pleading guilty to one count of illegally accessing a computer.

Larry Mendte admitted that he viewed hundreds of Alycia Lane's e-mails from March 2006 to May 2008, including ones from her agent, her then-husband and lawyers representing her after she was arrested in New York last year and fired from the station.

"There is no question he wrecked her career," said lawyer Paul Rosen, who represents Lane in her wrongful-termination suit against KYW-TV.

Mendte, 51, earned about $700,000 a year at the station. Rosen believes he became jealous of his younger co-anchor in early 2006 as her salary climbed to about $780,000. He bought a keystroke-logging device to get her passwords in August 2006, and intercepted e-mails from Lane's two personal and one work account, prosecutors said.

From January to May of this year, Mendte read Lane's e-mail 537 times, the FBI said....

Mendte, 51, was fired in June after FBI agents searched his home and seized his computer. His attorney, Michael Schwartz, has said Mendte cooperated from the start.

Mendte faces a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison but is likely to get much less under federal guidelines when he is sentenced Nov. 24. Prosecutors have agreed not to recommend any sentence.

As the twice-divorced Lane's personal life became tabloid fodder, she complained to the station that her work e-mails were getting passed around, Rosen said.

"They treated her as if she was paranoid," he said...

According to the criminal information filed in July, Mendte relayed details about Lane's criminal case and other information to a Philadelphia Daily News reporter.

Lane is suing the station over her dismissal, which the station said was necessary because she had become the subject of several news stories....

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