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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Boy do you have your facts wrong! Chen didn't pay anything for the iPhone. The person who bought it was the head of Gawker media, Chen's boss's boss. So your whole justification for the police smashing down Chen's door just went out the window.
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Gizmodo's article just says "we acquired", every other source I've read says that "Gizmodo acquired", without naming any internal chain of people. I would guess the police assumed the same thing I did - Chen opened the phone and wrote the article, so he was probably the one that received the stolen phone in the first place. Regardless, Chen received stolen property (under california law) whether he was the individual who paid for it or not.