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Microsoft engineer gets nine years for stealing $10M from Microsoft
- eddieoz 6y agoThe guy used >> bitcoin << 'to try to cover' his tracks, buying it in one of the most regulated exchanges in the world: Coinbase
- bzb6 6y agoWhy does a company like Microsoft need to hire people from “Ukraine” to do work like this?
- runawaybottle 6y agoThe court records list his salary at Microsoft-Seattle as a contractor (116k). Thought Seattle salaries were higher? That’s probably what the ‘Ukraine’ part has to do with.
- runawaybottle 6y agohttps://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.275443/gov.uscourts.wawd.275443.1.0.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.275443... Scroll down to ‘B. Scheme to Fraud’. What if the testers worked together to move out the credits in a slower way, split the 10 million. It seems he only got caught because the authorities became suspicious of the Bitcoin windfall. He probably had one hundred thousand $100 dollar gift cards. How do you move all that slowly without arousing suspicion or registering as a business?