Financial Crime: Couple convicted in $5 million software con that they promised would take on Microsoft — but was actually ‘a heap of junk,’ according to one employee

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It’ll be bigger than Microsoft, we swear.

For more than 15 years, Michael and Betsy Feinberg promised investors that their revolutionary computer software, VDelta, was on the verge of taking on giants including Microsoft MSFT and Sun Microsystems, prosecutors say. They just needed a few hundred thousand dollars more to get it over the line.

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