Ex-Microsoft manager gets 22 months for fraud
PC World | at | by Mike
The woman formerly responsible for managing Microsoft's Internet domain names has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for bilking her employer out of US$1 million in fake registration fees.Carolyn Gudmundson, 46, formerly a program manager at Microsoft's MSN division, pleaded guilty in January to charges that she used her position within the company to run a number of scams between 2000 and 2004. On Friday, she was sentenced to 22 months in prison, followed by three months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $923,641 in restitution.
According to court filings, Gudmundson used her corporate American Express card for domain-name registration fees, but would then submit copies of invoices that carried inflated charges.