"and fines of up to $250,000"
having to pay back a maximum of 1/4 of it, what a harsh and unfair punishment!
A former Microsoft worker who managed the IT giant's domain name trades faces charges over an alleged $1m expenses scam. Carolyn Gudmundson, 44, of Kirkland, Washington, faces 11 counts of wire fraud and seven counts of mail fraud over allegations she systematically ripped off Microsoft, Expedia, and a Californian domain name …
Ah , but don't forget to live in the prim but fashionable pretend imaginary world at the Redmond Campus these days , one needs real dollars in additions to the salary paid to fund that pretender life style !
What's a little creative accounting between friends anyway and a somewhat lax but totally incompetent internal audit control system !
As for the restitution that is normally deducted from the company controlled pension fund , fines are usually imposed where non custodial sentences are deemed appropriate based on the usual crap inflated references and can the person re-offend again in the same position or NBL for without a reference the best job she could get is a five and dime waitress in a Washington DC coffee shop although there are many new vacancies arising for creative people with book cooking skills at a certain White House with a press room though in the same town ?
Perhaps for real justice the very lax somewhat mostly incompetent unquestioning internal audit control section should be excommunicated and expelled to the last man standing from the Redmond Campus and thrown onto the street where they belong in the first place with a size twelve boot impressed into their rear ends !