Fired Oracle Worker Convicted of Perjury

A former Oracle Corp. executive assistant was convicted of forging an e-mail message to support her claim that she was fired for ending a relationship with Chief Executive Larry Ellison. Adelyn Lee, 33, is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 27 on two counts of perjury, one count of falsifying evidence and one count of breaking into a computer network. She could spend up to six years in prison. In the disputed e-mail message, Lee’s boss, Craig Ramsey, reportedly wrote that he had carried out Ellison’s request to have her fired. In October 1993, Lee filed a lawsuit against Redwood Shores-based Oracle saying she had been wrongfully terminated five days after she ended her 18-month-long relationship with Ellison. Oracle settled the suit out of court last year. Lee received $100,000 in exchange for retracting her accusations.