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  1. October 06, 2020

    Ex-Autonomy CFO Can't Trim 5-Year Sentence Amid Pandemic

    A California federal judge ruled Tuesday that Autonomy's asthmatic former chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain had shown no "extraordinary and compelling" reasons for the court to shorten his five-year sentence for lying about the software company's financials ahead of its 2011 acquisition by Hewlett-Packard.

  2. September 24, 2020

    Ex-Autonomy CFO Asks For Shorter Sentence Amid Virus

    Autonomy's former chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain asked a California federal court on Wednesday for a reduction of his five-year sentence for lying about the British software company's financials before Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $11.7 billion acquisition in 2011, arguing COVID-19 will jeopardize his health in prison. 

  3. August 26, 2020

    9th Circ. Says Ex-Autonomy CFO Can't Nix Fraud Conviction

    Autonomy's former chief financial officer lost a bid at the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to nix a securities fraud conviction for lying about the British software company's financials before Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $11.7 billion acquisition in 2011.

  4. August 09, 2019

    Ex-Autonomy CFO Must Post $20M Bond During HP Appeal

    A California federal judge on Friday raised the bond on Autonomy Corp.'s ex-chief financial officer to $20 million while the former executive appeals a five-year sentence for orchestrating an accounting fraud scheme that led Hewlett-Packard to overpay by billions in its purchase of Autonomy.

  5. May 13, 2019

    Ex-Autonomy CFO Gets 5 Years For Fraud In Sale To HP

    A California federal judge sentenced Autonomy Corp.'s former chief financial officer on Monday to five years in prison and $4 million in fines for orchestrating an accounting fraud scheme that led Hewlett-Packard to overpay for the British software company by billions.

  6. May 09, 2019

    Fraudster Blasts DOJ's 'Bond Villain' Jab In Sentencing Memo

    A former executive of British software company Autonomy convicted of accounting fraud slammed the government's "draconian" sentencing recommendations Wednesday as well as its characterization of him as a "Bond villain" in a colorfully worded response filed in California federal court.

  7. May 02, 2019

    Feds Want 'Bond Villain' Sentence For Ex-Autonomy Exec

    Federal prosecutors told a San Francisco judge Wednesday that a former executive of British software company Autonomy carried out accounting fraud with the attitude of a "James Bond villain or a Mafioso," and asked the judge for an above-guidelines sentence of 12 years plus more than $1.7 billion in penalties.

  8. April 12, 2019

    Ex-Autonomy CFO Faces Possible 9-Year Stint For HP Fraud

    A California federal judge on Thursday set a sentencing guidelines range of roughly seven to nine years in prison for the former chief financial officer of Autonomy following his fraud conviction over the British software company's sale to HP, a far cry from a guidelines range that called for a life term advocated by the government.

  9. April 05, 2019

    Ex-Autonomy CFO May Face Life Term In HP Fraud, Feds Say

    U.S. federal guidelines call for a life sentence for the former chief financial officer of British software company Autonomy, a calculation based largely on the millions of dollars another Autonomy executive made when the company was sold to Hewlett-Packard, prosecutors say.

  10. February 28, 2019

    Prison Will Be Harsher On UK Ex-Autonomy Exec, Court Told

    Autonomy's former chief financial officer told a California federal judge Wednesday that, as a U.K. national, U.S. prison will be harsher on him than other white-collar defendants ahead of his sentencing for purportedly lying about the British software company's financials before Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $11.7 billion acquisition in 2011.

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