Followed this one closely as did many in the Silicon Valley IT circle. Court docs showed he was making ~900k per year so this decision was very short sighted.

Followed this one closely as did many in the Silicon Valley IT circle. Court docs showed he was making ~900k per year so this decision was very short sighted. He bought a house with kickbacks for ~800k which was forfeited as part of sentencing and now worth over $2.5M. Prior to getting caught, he had been recruited as CIO of Yahoo pre-acquisition to Verizon. There is no public data on his salary but comparable C level excecs were making millions per year. The previous CIO had a $30M exit package. When Verizon bought Yahoo he could have made millions more in retention and/or exit package. All said, this easily cost him $10M in lost compensation to date and orders of magnitude more given his career trajectory. Albeit he made a poor decision, Mike was an incredibly talented engineer/leader. Shame to see his career end this way.