Helping North Korean IT remote workers is becoming a fast track to prison

nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating “laptop farms” that helped North Korean IT workers gain employment at nearly 70 American companies, generating more than $1.2 million for Pyongyang’s government. Although Matthew Issac Knoot of Nashville, Tennessee, and Erick Ntekereze Prince of New York were sentenced in separate cases, both were convicted for the same type of crime involving North Korean remote IT worker schemes. According to prosecutors, both men … More →