Four Sentenced in Software Fraud Scheme
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A plot to defraud Microsoft into getting academic rates brings fines and prison time.
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Four of the six men accused of conspiring to bomb the transportation system in 2005 were sentenced today.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2004  - Four former Microsoft Corp. employees have been charged with theft, conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the alleged theft and resale of $32 million of Microsoft software.
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Four men face charges for creating and selling the worm that infected about a million PCs in China.
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The leader of one of an Internet software piracy group was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
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Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit.Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, the husband-and-wife owners of Samtech Research, were sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $25 million in fines to Microsoft for their role in a software reselling scheme run between 1997 and 2001.The Alis and their associates purchased more than $29 million worth of software at Microsoft&#39;s academic-discount rates and then resold it to nonacademic entities, making more than $5 million in profits. The two were convicted on Nov. 28, 2006, and had been awaiting sentencing.Previous to this, the Alis had already been kicked out of Microsoft&#39;s AER (Authorized Education Reseller) program, but they &quot;formed new corporations ... to disguise their identity from Microsoft and re-enter the AER program,&quot; the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement, released Thursday.They laundered their profits by purchasing real estate in their son&#39;s name and by wiring more than $300,000 to Pakistan, the DOJ said.Two of the Alis associates, Keith Griffen, 56, and William Glushenko, 66, were also sentenced in connection with the case. Griffen, a partner in some of the Alis&#39; corporations, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and $20 million in fines. Glushenko was given one year of probation and 100 hours of community service.The scam was exposed during the course of a two-year undercover investigation called &quot;Operation Cyberstorm,&quot; which was conducted by the FBI and the U.S. IRS.
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Four people in Nevada and Oklahoma were charged with fraudulently obtaining thousands of dollars meant for victims of Hurricane Katrina, authorities said Thursday.
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A husband-and-wife team were sentenced to five years in prison for buying Microsoft software at academic discounts and illegally reselling it.
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Hacking tools that let you unlawfully activate trial software can include malware used by hackers to steal financial data.
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Four senior executives of German chipmaker Infineon agreed to jail time and steep fines for their role in a scheme to fix prices in the memory chip market, the US Department of Justice said Thursday.
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A German software dealer has been convicted of counterfeiting Microsoft Corp. products and sentenced to three years in prison, authorities said Wednesday.
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Regulators are trying to prevent scams caused by software that computer users may not even know is on their PCs.
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Four executives at German memory supplier Infineon and its US subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.
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A pensioner is sentenced to five years in prison for masterminding a Â£2.4m benefits scam
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A California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution for selling pirated software online.
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NEW YORK, December 6  - The US Department of Justice has imposed steep fines and announced jail terms for four senior executives of Infineon Technologies (IFX.
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Four executives of German memory chip maker Infineon Technologies AG have agreed to plead guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix computer memory chip prices, the Department of Justice said Thursday.