December 08, 2017
A former financial analyst for Amazon.com Inc. who admitted to passing corporate secrets to a friend who traded on the information and cut him $10,000 was sentenced to six months in prison by a federal judge in Seattle on Friday.
September 07, 2017
A former Amazon.com financial analyst pled guilty Thursday in Washington federal court to securities fraud involving insider trading and reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which included disgorgement of $10,000 that a fraternity brother had paid for getting tipped off on the company's not-yet-released quarterly results.