Ex-Microsoft Employee Gets Years In Jail

A former Microsoft employee was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for his part in an insider trading scheme that netted him and his partner more than $400,000. 32 year-old Brian Jorgenson had pleaded guilty to securities fraud for his part in a sophisticated operation in which he passed private information he gleaned from his job as a corporate finance manager at Microsoft to a former colleague who traded stocks and options. Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of 2-1/2 years for Jorgenson, who they say was the instigator of the scheme. Jorgenson, a father of four with no history of crime, had asked for one year and a day imprisonment, plus 500 hours of community service.

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