{"id":13731,"date":"2024-03-16T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/from-riches-to-ankle-bracelet-uk-tech-tycoon-mike-lynchs-stunning-fall\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T06:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T05:37:18","slug":"from-riches-to-ankle-bracelet-uk-tech-tycoon-mike-lynchs-stunning-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/from-riches-to-ankle-bracelet-uk-tech-tycoon-mike-lynchs-stunning-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"From riches to ankle bracelet: UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch\u2019s stunning fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Britain\u2019s Bill Gates\u2019 could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard<\/p>\n

Mike Lynch, the technology tycoon, once dubbed Britain\u2019s Bill Gates, has spent the past 10 months in San Francisco, with a GPS bracelet strapped to his ankle and two armed guards monitoring him around the clock. This week he heads to court to face a long, hard fight for his freedom.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 13 years since one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most storied companies bought Lynch\u2019s business in a blockbuster takeover that seemed to confirm his image as one of the UK\u2019s most brilliant technologists. Now that deal is at the center of a criminal fraud trial. If convicted, Lynch could spend up to 25 years in jail.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\n\u2018Britain\u2019s Bill Gates\u2019 could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard
\nMike Lynch, the technology tycoon, once dubbed Britain\u2019s Bill Gates, has spent the past 10 months in San Francisco, with a GPS bracelet strapped to his ankle and two armed guards monitoring him around the clock. This week he heads to court to face a long, hard fight for his freedom.
\nIt\u2019s been 13 years since one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most storied companies bought Lynch\u2019s business in a blockbuster takeover that seemed to confirm his image as one of the UK\u2019s most brilliant technologists. Now that deal is at the center of a criminal fraud trial. If convicted, Lynch could spend up to 25 years in jail. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Britain\u2019s Bill Gates\u2019 could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard Mike Lynch, the technology tycoon, once dubbed Britain\u2019s Bill Gates, has spent the past 10 months in San Francisco, with a GPS bracelet strapped to his ankle and two armed guards monitoring …<\/p>\n

From riches to ankle bracelet: UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch\u2019s stunning fall<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}