An Arizona woman was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for her role in a fraudulent IT worker scheme to aid North Korea. According to the Department of Justice, the woman operated a “laptop farm,” which generated $17 million for the regime.
Authorities say 50-year-old Christina Marie Chapman from Litchfield Park helped North Korean IT workers pose as Americans by obtaining remote jobs at more than 300 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 companies.
She also shipped 49 laptops and other devices supplied by those companies to locations overseas, including multiple shipments to a city in China on the border with North Korea. The department says the case is one of the largest North Korean IT worker fraud schemes charged by the DOJ.
Chapman pleaded guilty earlier this year to crimes related to “wire fraud, identity theft and laundering monetary instruments.”
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