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: GamePolitics.comNationwide Employee Sentenced for Counterfeiting PC Games
By james_fudge
A monitoring program on Nationwide Insurance's network landed one of its Columbus, Ohio employees a hefty fine and jail time for selling copies of PC games. Qiang "Michael" Bi had apparently been selling PC games for five years. The software alerted Nationwide officials to a spreadsheet that Bi sent from his personal e-mail account to his Nationwide e-mail account. That spreadsheet contained some damning evidence against him including eBay accounts, credit-card numbers and false identities Bi used to run his illegal business.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley sentenced Bi to a two and a half year sentence. Bi will not do time because he plead guilty and gave up copious amounts of personal property. Bi turned over $367,669 in cash from his business, and forfeited his house, a 2006 Lexus SUV, and computer and electronic equipment. Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on December 30, 2010 (boomark / email).
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