The former director of auto marketplace startup Tred was indicted this week by a federal grand jury in Seattle on five counts of wire fraud in an alleged scheme to… Read More
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was fined the maximum penalty of $24.6 million on Wednesday for violating Washington state’s campaign finance transparency law. King County Superior Court Judge Douglass… Read More
A former Amazon Web Services engineer found guilty of hacking Capital One and several other companies, was sentenced to time served and five years of probation on Tuesday in U.S.… Read More
A Seattle-area tech executive who attempted to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans through the Paycheck Protection Program was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday. Mukund Mohan, 48,… Read More
A Washington tech executive charged in a scheme to obtain more than $5.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and launder the proceeds pled guilty on Monday. Acting U.S.… Read More
The perpetrators of an online tech-support fraud scheme, originally brought to the attention of U.S. authorities by Microsoft, have been shut down by a federal court for allegedly trying to… Read More
A former senior manager in Amazon’s tax department has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Laksha Bohra allegedly acquired confidential information while she prepared and… Read More
A grand jury in the Western District of Washington has indicted six people in a multi-million dollar scheme to bribe Amazon employees and contractors to gain an unfair advantage on… Read More