Financial Crime: Dialing for dollars: Oklahoma couple guilty in $88 million pirated Avaya phone software scam

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An unassuming couple from a tiny town in Oklahoma have pleaded guilty to running a scam that flooded the world with so many pirated office phone-system licenses stolen from the telecom company Avaya that they nearly cornered the global market for the software.

Federal prosecutors say Brad Pearce, 48, who had been a long-time…