Keppel Sentencing Delayed Until January
11/20/2002 -- The sentencing of braindump site owner Robert R. Keppel has been delayed until January 24, 2003.
Keppel pleaded guilty in August to a federal charge of Theft of Trade Secrets in relation to his site, Cheet-Sheets.com, selling questions and answers to Microsoft certification exams. When sentenced, he faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
Assistant United States Attorney Annette L. Hayes, who is prosecuting the case, told CertCities.com today that her office has filed its sentencing recommendation with the court, but cannot release the details until a few days before the January hearing.
Keppel was originally schedule to be sentenced Nov. 1, but the hearing was pushed back until this Friday. No reason was given for the most recent rescheduling.
CertCities.com will bring you more on this story as events unfold.  -B.N.
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| 2/4/03: Wondering says: |
Saw today that Keppel was sentenced to about a year in prison. The story caught my attention from a "consumer" standpoint. How are you to know which sites are legit and which aren't? How are you expected to know if you're buying a "study guide" or actual test Q&A's? I see the add for TestKing on here. Are they legit? A company I worked for a few years ago bought Transcenders and we studied from them. Are they a legitimate, legal study guide? or illegal? TroyTech? ExamSheets? I mean, at least Cheet-Sheets has a name that "implies" something isn't right! What about companies who promote themselves as "practice questions and exams similar to actual tests" ?? How are you to know the questions are copied from real tests if you've never seen or taken the test before? When I first took my 2000 Pro test, I had studied from 4 or 5 books, like Sybex, MS, ExamCram, etc. A total of maybe $200 in books. AND, had worked with the product for over a year. But took and failed the test. Wasn't anything at all like the "practice tests" in those garbage books you buy at Barnes&Noble at fifty bucks a pop. So I looked at the Transcenders, I looked at other "study guides", got a feel for how MS words questions, got an idea of what they want you to know, and then passed the test. So I guess my question is: if I see TestKing on this CertCities site, and I go there, and I believe I'm buying a legitimate study guide, and it turns out to be one of Keppel's subsidiaries(!), am I wrong?? If you go to the store to buy flour, and you "think" you're buying flour, but it turns out to be cocaine, are you guilty of buying drugs?? If you honestly thought you were buying flour?? |
| 2/4/03: Wondering says: |
Just a follow-up to my previous post. I was browsing the CertCities home page. I saw a link for "practice exams". If you go there, you see a big, long list of different "demo" and "practice" questions from various vendors or companies. Do we all agree that CertCities is legit? Is that safe to assume? My answer would be yes. So we go to some of these links, and we take the practice exams for CCNA. Soon after we go and pass the test. Weeks later, headlines pop up that CertCities has been indicted for providing real test Q&A's for various exams. Are WE wrong? Should WE be penalized, either by prosecution, or the CCNA cert revoked, etc??? I have to agree with the earlier analogy of the pawn shop. I buy a watch, and it turns out to be stolen. Can I be charged? I don't believe so. Not if I didn't know it was stolen. I may have to give the watch back. That's perfectly understandable. But how do you give knowledge back? |
| 2/25/04: Anonymous says: |
SO NOW WHERE DO I GET MY CRIP NOTES??????? |
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