Man uses robot vacuum to catch cheating wife, wins $16,000 affair case, then gets jailed for secretly filming her
📍 Where it landed
The man who used a robot vacuum to record his wife's affair was sentenced to prison after courts determined the recordings were unlawful. His earlier victory in the $15,000‑$16,000 civil case did not prevent the criminal conviction.
Epilogue added 21d ago, after coverage quieted.
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