Holiday Gift Guide »  This is the dude who found and sold the
next-gen iPhone  Categories: Apple, iPhone, Legal By: ,
IntoMobile Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 4:38 PM  That guy with
the douche-bag beard is reportedly the person who found the
next-generation iPhone in a bar and sold it to an online
publication.  The 21-year-old Brian J. Hogan, of Redwood City,
California, said he was paid by Gizmodo but didn’t think he was
doing anything wrong because he thought he was just selling the
rights to review the unit before returning it to Apple. The
publication told him there was nothing illegal with this
process.  “He regrets his mistake in not doing more to return
the phone,” said Jeffrey Bornstein, Hogan’s legal
representation, in a prepared statement. “Even though he did
obtain some compensation from Gizmodo, Brian thought that it was
so that they could review the phone.”  According to his lawyer,
Hogan was handed the phone at a bar and asked if it belonged to
him. Like a jerk, he immediately started monkeyed w