A former Twitter manager was sentenced Wednesday to 3 ½ years in prison for spying and funneling private information about dissidents to the Saudi Royal family.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward M. Chen handed down a 42-month sentence for Ahmad Abouammo, who was convicted in August after a two-week trial.
At the time, Abouammo was Twitter's Media Partnerships Manager for the Middle East/North Africa region. Evidence at trial showed a foreign official met with Abouammo in London in December 2014 and gave him a luxury Hublot watch, which Abouammo later listed for sale on Craigslist for $42,000. After that, Abouammo began accessing private information about several Twitter accounts, at least one of which was the account of an influential user who was critical of members of the Saudi royal family and the government, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The account received another $100,000 shortly after Abouammo left Twitter for other employment, accompanied by a note from the official apologizing for the delayed payment, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Abouammo was arrested in November 2019 and was charged in 2020 with multiple crimes that include acting as an agent of a foreign government without providing notice to the Attorney General, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud, wire fraud, and international money laundering.
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