[toast0]

When ARIN transacts for addresses, by policy, it's based on documented need. Typically, documents prepared by the applicant are accepted, but IIRC, ARIN reserves the right to ask for more. ARIN may also approve addresses based on projected use and later ask for documents showing deployment.

If the need was made up to procure addresses for sale, that's fraud. If ARIN asks for deployment documentation and it's not provided, there could be lots of reasons, but if the applicant never intended to deploy and doesn't want to make up more documents, that points towards fraud at the initial application.

(Not sure if anyone wrote a good article to reference)

[chatmasta]

The criminal wire fraud was committed when he generated false identities to file the applications to ARIN. If he had only made up the need for the addresses, and not generated fake identities, then perhaps he would have been exposed to only civil liability.