She'd go back to prison if it would erase her $7.6M debt

BOTHELL — Christine Hendrickson never knew the scale of her crime.

As she flipped through old charging papers last week, she was shocked to see the numbers.

In the early 2000s, she and three co-workers took tens of millions of dollars in software from Microsoft, where they were employed, then sold it to people across the country for their personal profit.

Nearly 20 years later, Hendrickson still owes $7.4 million in restitution to a company now worth over a trillion dollars, for stealing software that’s long outdated.

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