A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels.

Florida's Heidi Richards has been sentenced to 22 months in prison and fined $50,000 for trafficking stolen Microsoft Windows and Office license keys.

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Heidi Richards, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison for her part in the scheme, ...

Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring ...

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