Update 

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Update on the MasterCard Case:

On November 15, 2001, Fausto Estrada was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to one year in prison for stealing trade secrets from MasterCard and offering to sell them to MasterCard's competitor, Visa.  He had pleaded guilty on July 11, 2001, to a single count of trade secret theft under the Economic Espionage Act. 

He sentence was served.

(Updated June 2006)

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