Why wasn't Anonymous hacker-turned-FBI-informant Hector "Sabu" Monsegur sentenced as scheduled last week in New York? When I called Judge Preska's chambers last Thursday to check whether the sentencing would actually take place the following day, the man on the other end of the line told me that it would not—but he couldn't tell me why, saying only that the reason would probably show up in the federal court's online PACER system at some point soon.

On Monday afternoon, the reason arrived in the form of a fax from the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who requested that Monsegur's sentencing be pushed back to August 23 "in light of the defendant's ongoing cooperation with the Government."

Apparently the feds still have need of someone with Monsegur's particular gifts.