Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT...

Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs worked by developers in China
fortune.com

A 40-year-old Maryland man is facing decades in prison after he allegedly worked with foreign nationals in China to get remote work IT jobs with at least 13 different U.S. companies between 2021 and 2024. The jobs paid him more than $970,000 in salary for software development tasks that were actually performed by operatives authorities allege are North Korean and working out of a post in Shenyang, China, according to the Department of Justice.

Wow. In theory could this model scale? That would be concerning.

I have heard amusing stories where engineers hold multiple jobs and have someone offshore work on their behalf. But this takes it to the next ➡️ crazy level where money gets funneled to sanctioned states.