14 DAY TRIAL // 28-year-old Hector Monsegur, better known on the hacking scene as Sabu, the one that worked as an FBI informant and ratted out his LulzSec colleagues, is apparently too afraid to show up in court because of “security issues and physical threats.”
According to The Smoking Gun, Monsegur was due to appear in front of a judge on April 11, but his lawyer, Peggy Cross-Goldenberg, asked the judge to proceed without her client who feared for his safety.
The proceedings went on without the suspect and Judge Diana Boyar decided to adjourn the case for 6 months, after which, if Sabu behaves well, the misdemeanor charges against him will be dropped.
Monsegur was initially arrested in the summer of 2011, when prosecutors released him with the condition of acting as an informant for the FBI. Up until recently, many considered the hacker Sabu as being one of the spiritual leaders of the Anonymous movement.
Now, many hackers have launched threats against him, and it seems that he took them seriously.
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