The US Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. (ARIN) won a legal case, against multi-year program designed to deceive the Internet community by approximately 735,000 IPv4 addresses. The emerging market of IPv4 address transmission and growing demand has led to new attempts to fraudulently recover IP4 addresses. Amir Golestan, 36, of Charleston, and Micfo, LLC, were charged in federal court in a twenty-count indictment. The indictment charges twenty counts of wire fraud, with each count punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/fraudulently-acquired-ipv4-addresses-revoked-by-arin/