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Addressing the Court during the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanne M. Kempthorne said Strauss admitted to MIT police that, over an 18-month period, he stole computers, laboratory equipment and other items from MIT’s Chemical Engineering and Chemistry departments...
...investigation began when an MIT police officer was in the Department of Chemistry’s Building 18 taking a report on a stolen computer and a graduate student noticed that a similar computer was being offered for sale on eBay, said Robert J. Sales, associate director of the MIT News Office...
Police contacted the seller via e-mail and obtained his phone number, according to the MIT News Office...
...MIT Police Officer Mark Kelleher spoke with the seller by phone several times and made a deal for the computer, which was estimated to be about...
According to MIT, police obtained a search warrant for Strauss’ room in the Zeta Psi fraternity on Mass. Ave. and seized $30,000-$40,000 worth of computers and computer equipment, which police allege Strauss had been selling on eBay...