NEW YORK -- Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of Computer Associates who pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy and fraud charges in a $2 billion accounting scandal at the software company, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison.
The 44-year-old Kumar, once considered the leading light of the company now known as CA Inc., also was fined $8 million.
The accounting scandal rocked the company and led to the resignation of its founder, Charles Wang.
Prosecutors said Kumar and other top executives backdated contracts to inflate revenue at the company, one of the country's largest manufacturers of software for mainframe computers.
