An ex-Intel employee has been sentenced to two years' probation and fined $34,472 for pilfering “thousands of files,” which were reportedly instrumental to him landing a new position at Microsoft. Oregon Live says that Varun Gupta, who had been a product marketing engineer at Intel for a decade, aided Microsoft in significant processor purchasing negotiations with Intel. A custodial sentence was offset by the fine and the judge’s belief that Gupta had suffered enough due to a loss of reputation.
