TJX hacker claims US authorized his crimes

Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history,

is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree.

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