You can be a white patriotic Trumpian hillbilly from the backward God-fearing state of Tennessee and still betray your country, as long as you are a white Christian man, not some garbage dark-skinned migrant or immigrant.
Federal prosecutors brought charges Thursday against a Tennessee man who they say helped North Koreans pose as American IT workers, helping them earn U.S. salaries and fund the enemy regime’s nuclear weapons program.
Matthew Isaac Knoot was part of a broader North Korean effort to deceive U.S. companies into hiring its citizens as workers, authorities said.
Mr. Knoot is accused of running a “laptop farm” from Nashville. Companies would send him the laptops, figuring they were being used by an American worker. He then used the machines to connect the companies with North Korean IT workers stationed in China, who would work in his name, according to prosecutors.
To the companies, it appeared a man named Andrew was doing their work. Prosecutors said companies paid more than $250,000 for each worker from July 2022 to August 2023. Mr. Knoot is accused of running the scam under the stolen identity of a real person. He even had the income falsely reported to the IRS under that person’s name.
North Korea recruits innocent-looking white men from the south - who raise the least suspicions - to fund its weapons goals, including nuclear weapons. They said thousands of workers end up producing hundreds of millions of dollars for the government — and the workers themselves keep almost none of it.
The scam should be a wakeup call to greedy American businesses who use remote IT workers. He told them to be “vigilant in their hiring processes.”
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