Local News in Brief : Computer Violator Guilty
A former travel agency employee was convicted of erasing more than 250 bookings from the company computer in what City Atty. James Hahn said was “an act of revenge for being fired.”
The computer tampering in November, 1986, left some clients of C.L. Thompson Express International stranded overseas and cost the downtown Los Angeles agency more than $8,000 to correct.
Louisa Wang, 34, of Alhambra was convicted by a Los Angeles Municipal Court jury of one violation of a state penal code section that makes it a crime punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine to tamper with a computer.
Wang is scheduled to be sentenced April 4.
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