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In a companywide memo on March 5, 2000, Huang said the firm had won a lucrative contract to supply graphics chips for Microsoft's Xbox game console. Nvidia shares soared in the following days and weeks as rumors of the deal rippled through Wall Street.

In a telephone interview with The Chronicle, Bhagat admitted that he purchased 1,000 shares the following day but said he didn't know about the Microsoft deal, because he opened the e-mail after he purchased the shares.

"Mr. Huang sent an e-mail midnight on Sunday night. . . . Me and my wife had been looking for houses during that time, and the following morning, I was looking at properties online and I also traded stocks at the same time," he said. "It was after lunch I opened the e-mail."

Bhagat, who immigrated to the United States a decade ago from India, said he feels "persecuted by the U.S. government."

"I came to this country and enrolled at the University of Kentucky with $800 in my pocket. I worked delivering newspapers and pizzas putting myself through school. And now this," said Bhagat, who is married to a school teacher and has a 10-month-old son.

He later earned a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University and landed a job at Sun Microsystems, where he remained for about three years before becoming a hardware engineer at Nvidia in January 2000. He remained on paid leave yesterday but figures that he will be fired now that there's a conviction.

"These guys want to ruin my life for 1,000 shares that I bought on speculation, not on insider information," he said. "I'm going to fight hard." Bhagat said he made $48,000 profit from the purchase but ended up spending more than $250,000 to defend himself in the case.

Bhagat said he will appeal the verdict. He spent yesterday afternoon writing an eight-page letter to U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte, appealing his case.

"In early 2000, everybody was trading stocks, and I was, too, and Nvidia happened to be one of the purchases on that day. And here I am, a convicted felon," he said.