Mr. Pride pleaded guilty to a violation, which is the equivalent of a traffic ticket, and was given a sentence of time served.
Brown was also spared jail time: he pleaded guilty to the same charge in September, receiving a sentence of time served.
He agreed to a sentence of time served, with no probation, and to undergo 60 hours of debriefing, under oath, by the government.
In court on Friday, Mr. Meskini's lawyer, Mark S. DeMarco, asked for a sentence of time served — his client was arrested last November — citing Mr. Meskini's cooperation in the millennium case.
Not surprising, Mr. Stanford is seeking a much lower punishment that would effectively result in a sentence of time served since he was jailed after being charged in 2009.
When Mr. Callan said Ms. Heatherly had offered a sentence of time served in exchange for a plea to a lesser offense, she replied: "The people did not offer time served.
The show's title implies that its real-life characters were clearly innocent, but the article pointed out that two of them pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for sentences of time served after issues were raised about the evidence used to convict them.
The proceeding in State Supreme Court in Manhattan was quick — about five minutes for her to change her plea (she had originally pleaded guilty to more serious money laundering charges) and receive her sentence of time served (about 20 days in jail before she made bail).
Many were shocked to hear on Tuesday that one of the most notorious hackers of recent times, LulzSec's Hector Monsegur – a man with cyber crimes dating back years – received for his efforts a sentence of time served, plus a year of probation, after almost three years of "extraordinary cooperation" with the FBI.
The chief victim of that clamor, Wen Ho Lee, the Taiwan-born computer scientist, recently settled his case by pleading guilty to one charge of mishandling classified information in return for a sentence of time served and an agreement to cooperate with investigators.
