The U.S. Branch of Homeland Security's previous top guard dog, entrusted with uncovering waste, misrepresentation and misuse, was prosecuted on Friday on charges he plotted to take the administration's restrictive programming and secret databases to help his private business, the Justice Department said.
The prosecution charges Charles K. Edwards, 59, who filled in as the acting controller general at DHS from 2011 to 2013, just as one of his subordinates, Murali Yamazula Venkata, with scheme to submit burglary of government property and to swindle the United States, robbery of government property, wire misrepresentation and exasperated fraud.
Venkata, 54, additionally was accused of annihilating records.
Reuters couldn't promptly recognize lawyers speaking to the two.
The Justice Department said that from October 2014 to April 2017, Edward and Venkata plotted to take the product utilized by the assessor general's office at DHS, alongside databases containing exceptionally delicate individual data about representatives at DHS, just as the U.S. Postal Service.
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