David Goldenberg, a resident of Long Island and former vice president in the New York-area office of Richardson, Texas.-based AMX Corp., pled guilty this week in a New Jersey courtroom to felony wiretapping in connection with illegally accessing the internal e-mail at Crestron’s sales and marketing firm, Sapphire Marketing, based in Woodcliff Hills, N.J.

As part of the plea deal with the Bergen Court Prosecutor’s Office, which has spared Goldenberg from a criminal trial, the prosecutor there, Brian Lynch, is recommending probation.

That’s in part because Goldenberg has been largely cooperative after being approached by the Paramus Police Department in February 2008 after Sapphire filed a complaint about suspicions that business e-mail concerning AMX was being intercepted and Goldenberg had something to do with it.

“It’s a third-degree wiretapping charge,” says prosecutor Lynch, noting Goldenberg has no prior convictions so he’s eligible for probation, which he called “fair and just” in the case. Lynch noted his office, where most cases focus on nabbing online predators, gets few corporate espionage cases.

However, probation may not necessarily be the outcome as Goldenberg’s sentence comes down from a judge as scheduled on June 26th.