Motley Fool Stock-Pick Hacker Pleads Guilty to $3 Mn Fraud
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A man admitted to making at least $3.5 mn by illegally accessing the stock picks of the personal finance website Motley Fool.
An Idaho man who worked as an information technology professional admitted to making at least $3.5 million by illegally accessing the stock picks of the personal finance website Motley Fool before they were released.David Stone, a freelance web developer from Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty Friday to securities fraud in New York before US District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors and is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 14. Prosecutors said Stone provides IT support for small businesses via remote access to their computing systems. Stone, 37, was charged in M...