June 9, 2003

Camera phone in Sydney jail gets media attention

Rivkin.gif According to an article in The Age.au, an illegall photo of flamboyant jailed stockbroker Rene Rivkin, serving the first 24 hours of his sentence for insider trading, was taken on a mobile phone camera inside the detention center and published on the front page of Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. Rivkin collapsed when authorities searched him for the camera phone.