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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Community service for running pirate radio station
« on: April 03, 2012, 1649 UTC »
Retired Navy air traffic controller to do community service for running pirate radio station

Albert Knighten, a retired Navy air traffic controller who was arrested in December 2011 on charges of unlicensed broadcasting for running a neighborhood community radio station. Knighten got in additional hot water when he missed his arraignment hearing in order to appear on a panel about civil rights and broadcasting in Washington. And although the Florida law makes pirate broadcasting a felony punishable with up to five years in the slammer, Knighten joins a long line of unlicensed broadcasters who will do no time.

Instead the state prosecutor recommended that Knighten be placed in “diversion,” which means he will have to complete 20 hours of community service in a six month program. If he completes the program then the criminal case will be dropped....

http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2012/04/03/retired-navy-air-traffic-controller-to-do-community-service-for-running-pirate-radio-station/
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Re: Community service for running pirate radio station
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2012, 2155 UTC »
Isn't running a pirate radio station community service enough? ;)
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