<blockquote><strong>Eventually Steele and Hansmeier filmed their own porn to upload to support this scheme.</strong> When courts began suspicious, the indictment alleges that Steele and Hansmeier sent underlings to lie to courts, or even lied to courts themselves, to conceal the scheme. The indictment specifies 14 separate instances of perjury or lying to courts. This scheme, the feds claim, netted more than $6,000,000 in copyright settlements, of which $3,000,000 went to Steele and Hansmeier and only $1,000,000 went to sham "clients," with the rest consumed for expenses.</blockquote>
via <a href="https://popehat.com/2016/12/16/the-prenda-saga-goes-criminal-steele-and-hansmeier-indicted-on-federal-charges/">The Prenda Saga Goes Criminal: Steele and Hansmeier Indicted On Federal Charges | Popehat</a>.