and numerous personal calls to his LoD friends in
Atlanta. By July 11, 1989, Prophet, Urvile and Leftist also had Secret
Service DNR "pen registers" installed on their own lines.

The Secret Service showed up in force at Fry Guy's house on July 22,
1989, to the horror of his unsuspecting parents. The raiders were led
by a special agent from the Secret Service's Indianapolis office.
However, the raiders were accompanied and advised by Timothy M. Foley
of the Secret Service's Chicago office (a gentleman about whom we will
soon be hearing a great deal).

Following federal computer-crime techniques that had been standard
since the early 1980s, the Secret Service searched the house
thoroughly, and seized all of Fry Guy's electronic equipment and
notebooks. All Fry Guy's equipment went out the door in the custody of
the Secret Service, which put a swift end to his depredations.

The USSS interrogated Fry Guy at length. His case was put in the
charge of Deborah Daniels, the federal US Attorney for the Southern
District of Indiana. Fry Guy was charged with eleven counts of
computer fraud, unauthorized computer access, and wire fraud. The
evidence was thorough and irrefutable. For his part, Fry Guy blamed
his corruption on the Legion of Doom and offered to testify against
them.

Fry Guy insisted that the Legion intended to crash the phone system on
a national holiday. And when AT&T crashed on Martin Luther King Day,
1990, this lent a credence to his claim that genuinely alarmed telco
security and the Secret Service.

Fry Guy eventually pled guilty on May 31, 1990. On September 14, he
was sentenced to forty-four months' probation and four hundred hours'
community service. He could have had it much worse; but it made sense
to prosecutors to take it easy on this teenage minor, while zeroing in
on the notorious kingpins of the Legion of Doom.

But the case against LoD had nagging flaws. Despite the best effort of
investigators, it was impossible to prove that the Legion had crashed
the phone system on January 15, because they, in fact, hadn't done so.
The investigations of 1989 did show that certain members of the Legion
of Doom had achieved unprecedented power over the telco switching
stations, and that they were in active conspiracy to obtain more power
yet. Investigators were privately convinced that the Legion of Doom
intended to do awful things with this knowledge, but mere evil intent
was not enough to put