A former NBC-Universal executive who master minded a $1.3 million fraud against the entertainment giant got off easier yesterday than the underling he sold out to the feds.
Victor Jung – who spent his ill-gotten gains on lavish, private-jet trips to the Caribbean and a summer home in the Hamptons – was sentenced to a year and a day in jail for his brazen scheme.
The punishment is almost nine months less than the 21-month prison term imposed last week on Jung’s former assistant,
James Walsh, for helping perpetrate the scam, which involved wire transfers to dummy corporations and raids on the company’s petty-cash safe at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
During Jung’s sentencing in Manhattan federal court, Judge Loretta Preska cited prosecutor Seetha Ramachandran’s assertion that Jung provided “substantial” assistance in unraveling the case.
Walsh’s lawyer, Douglas Grover, later called Jung’s sentence “outrageous,” saying it reflected “a warped sense of right and wrong” on the part of prosecutors, who he said
intentionally got the men’s cases assigned to different judges.