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Former Microsoft worker gets 9 years in $10M fraud scheme

| November 9, 2020 2:27 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — A former Microsoft worker was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for a scheme to steal $10 million in digital currency — money authorities said he used to buy a $160,000 car and a lakefront home.

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