Former Korn Ferry executive David Nosal — who left to start his own firm and ultimately faced criminal charges for accessing a Korn Ferry database — was ordered to prison at a Federal Bureau of Prisons location in Atwater, Calif., according to court records. Nosal is due to be released on Jan. 25, 2019, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

Nosal was ordered to report to prison on March 14 after a federal judge denied his motion for a “writ of error coram nobis” that was announced in January.

A jury convicted Nosal in 2013 for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after his colleagues accessed information on a Korn Ferry database in 2005 in conjunction with Nosal starting his own search firm. The login credentials used were those of Nosal’s former executive assistant who remained at Korn Ferry.

Nosal remained out of jail as his case made it through the legal system.

In the “writ of error coram nobis” filed this year, Nosal’s legal team cited a case filed in March 2017 that claimed two Spencer Stuart executives took confidential information with them when they moved to Korn Ferry. That case was ultimately settled by Korn Ferry without criminal charges.

An effort to bring Nosal’s case to the US Supreme Court was not successful.