Denny Walsh reports:
Matthew Keys, whose rapid rise as a social media news reporter began and ended in Sacramento, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on a jury’s verdict in October that he conspired with the hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times’ website and alter a news story.
At the conclusion of a hearing that stretched from late morning to mid-afternoon, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ordered Keys, 29, to surrender June 15 to begin serving the prison term.
The judge set a June 8 hearing on the amount of restitution Keys should be ordered to pay.
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Although it was not mentioned in this report, “Sharpie,” who was never charged with the crime, was allegedly Sabu, who became an informant after he was arrested in 2011.