Ex-Coke Secretary Gets 8 Years in Prison | The Huffington Post: "ATLANTA — A federal judge ignored a former Coca-Cola secretary's plea for mercy Wednesday and sentenced her to eight years in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from the world's largest beverage maker.
U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester told Joya Williams, 42, that he was giving her a longer sentence than recommended by federal prosecutors and sentencing guidelines because, 'This is the kind of offense that cannot be tolerated in our society...'"
Let's see-- how much time did Ken Lay get? How about the other Enron crooks? How about the Worldcom robbers? Apparently, it's better for the criminal to have almost victims (note the "conspiring" in the paragraph above) rather than real victims.
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