http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lidhb035711927jun03,0,4777299.story
By Robert Kessler
Newsday.com
June 3, 2008
David Brooks, the former head of DHB Industries, apparently tried
numerous times to break into the security program monitoring the
computer he was allowed to use in home detention, according to a
computer expert for the company guarding him.
The attempted unsuccessful break-ins occurred even after one of Brooks'
attorneys promised the hacking would cease, Vincent Rakoccy, the
computer expert for Vance International, testified yesterday at federal
court in Central Islip.
Rakoccy is one of the witnesses that federal prosecutor Richard Lunger
has called to block attempts by Brooks to have the conditions of his
home detention eased or even ended. Rakoccy said that if the computer
breaks-ins had succeeded, the hacker could defeat the security system
installed on the computer and send messages undetected.
Brooks, 53, who is charged with looting his former company to support an
over-the-top lifestyle, was released to home confinement on a number of
conditions, including allowing the security company to monitor the
computer and the single telephone in his luxurious Manhattan apartment.
Brooks' new team of attorneys, the third since he was arrested in
October, have argued that the conditions of home detention are too
onerous and that he is not a flight risk.
Brooks' attorneys have said that any violations of the home detention
are minimal or the result of not understanding its conditions.
Mark Rufolo, one of the Brooks' attorneys, said there is no clear
evidence that Brooks was the person who attempted to break into the
computer.
Another witness, Nick Alleva, the manager of Brooks' security detail for
Vance, said that the paralegal Brooks had hired is also his girlfriend
and she has been at his Manhattan apartment past the midnight curfew.
Lunger has said that the situation at Brooks has been so lax that there
at times has been "a party atmosphere until 4 a.m."
Alleva also said he had to fire one security guard after Brooks offered
the guard's father-in-law a job.
Alleva also said he had confiscated two portable phones that Brooks had
gotten in addition to the monitored desk phone. Brooks could have used
the phones to make unmonitored phone calls, Alleva said.
The bail hearing is scheduled to continue today before U.S. District
Judge Joanna Seybert.
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