Ex-Disney worker sentenced to home confinement

NEW YORK (AP) — A former executive assistant who schemed with her boyfriend to sell secrets about the Disney company’s finances has been sentenced to four months home confinement.

Bonnie Hoxie of Los Angeles was sentenced today in federal court in Manhattan. She pleaded guilty in September to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.

Hoxie was formerly the secretary to Disney’s head of corporate communications.

Prosecutors say she fed nonpublic information such as the company’s quarterly earnings last year to her boyfriend, Yonni Sebbag. He tried to sell the inside tips by sending anonymous letters to 33 hedge funds and other investment companies.

Most of the firms that received the offers, including some in Manhattan, notified the FBI.

Sebbag was sentenced previously to over two years in prison.