Jury Finds SEO-Extortion Convict Guilty Of Retaliation

By Michelle Casady (April 19, 2017, 8:39 PM EDT) -- A Texas federal jury on Tuesday found a self-described "black hat search engine optimizer" guilty of retaliating against a Dallas-based mergers & acquisitions advisory firm by posting negative online reviews, after he had been sentenced to federal prison last year for extorting money from the firm by threatening to post them....

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