 Sushovan Hussain | Prosecutors in the Autonomy trial in San Francisco are not holding back from demonizing a senior Autonomy executive. They accuse Sushovan Hussain of being equivalent to "a James Bond villain or a Mafioso." They are seeking ... "no less than 144 months in prison… restitution to HP in the amount of $1.7bn, order forfeiture in the amount of $9,227,657… and a maximum fine of $4m." |  |
 | Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, a FTSE 100 technology powerhouse/house of cards, might lose his estimated $658m fortune. It all centers on HPE's disastrous purchase of Autonomy in 2011: the IT giant paid $11bn for the smaller company, then had to write down nearly $9bn of that. Hussain employed virtually every accounting trick in the book – backdating, channel stuffing, roundtrip transactions, undisclosed side agreements, feigned delivery, and massive hidden hardware sales – to create the false appearance that Autonomy was growing when it was really flat-lining. |  |
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