Russian hacker nabbed by FBI lost in federal prison system

[David Honig]

At 09:19 PM 7/19/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>   As a side note, the chief of security for the Alexis Park Hotel --
>   where the Defcon convention took place and where Sklyarov was arrested
>   -- professed to know nothing. When asked about the arrest, he said: "I
>   have no idea." When pressed about contact with the FBI, he admitted:
>   "The FBI advises us if they are going to be on our property, but they
>   don't tell us why. The FBI did advise us they would be on our property
>   Monday morning."

FWIW, Tomlinson in _The Big Breach_ asserts that many senior hotel security
folks
sleep with the spooks.