How did his wife get no prison time?
An alternative would be to have criminal parents serve time consecutively -- that way noone gets away, and the children would not have to be taken away.
> As part of the plea agreement, Bohra’s wife will not face criminal charges. Bohra’s wife is no longer employed at Amazon.
The wife (and family) lost 2.6 million, plus her job, and the husband - so it's not like she got away with something, just avoided the worst of the punishment.
They had to pay back their gains, pay additional fees, and one of them serves jail time. They did not get away with anything.
It sounds to me like even giving information to someone if you know that person will trade is illegal.
https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
"Giving someone the data" is probably a different violation to "trading with illegally obtained data".
She probably got a different penalty (breaking NDA or similar) then he did.
Basically they were able to cough up the $2mm the SEC wanted in the parallel civil suit, and didnt attempt to challenge the criminal case, so the prosecutors in the criminal case chose not to
Women generally get less time for the same crime.