Pillsbury client Brian Wong, an Uber driver from Secaucus, New Jersey, has avoided a prison sentence in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s probe of insider trading.

Wong, who is represented by Pillsbury Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense partner David Oliwenstein and associate John Van Son in New York, was instead sentenced by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos to three years of probation.

The judge also fined him $5,000 and ordered him to pay $400,000 in forfeiture, though defense filings say that Wong has already paid about $100,000. Wong will be able to continue his work as a driver, according to the judge.

The case stemmed from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s investigation of insider trading in Pandion Therapeutics in advance of Merck’s purchase of the company, Law360 reported. In 2022, Wong pled guilty to one count of being an accessory after the fact to a securities fraud conspiracy.

The April 12 sentence came in below official sentencing guidelines that called for a prison term of between one year and 18 months. Citing his efforts to repay the money, his lack of criminal history and financial pressures, Wong’s lawyers at Pillsbury asked the court for a no-prison sentence, according to Law360.

Oliwenstein, formerly with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement (where he investigated sophisticated insider trading schemes) before joining Pillsbury in 2020, told Law360 that he was pleased with the outcome.

“We appreciate the fact that the court recognized that not every case of insider trading or related conduct warrants a jail sentence,” he said.

The case is USA v. Markin et al., 1:22-cr-00395, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.