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Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote jobs at 300 companies

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  An Arizona woman has been accused of helping generate millions of dollars for North Korea’s ballistic missile program

Obviously the whole thing is illegal regardless but there was no evidence of the above claim in the article. I can't tell if it's real or if it's like those old propaganda claims that buying drugs is funding terrorism.

  The charges in this case should be a wakeup call for American companies and government agencies that employ remote IT workers

Certainly reads more like government/corporate propaganda than an objective report.

The very next sentence is:

> Christina Marie Chapman, 49, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, raised $6.8 million in the scheme, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Chapman allegedly funneled the money to North Korea’s Munitions Industry Department, which is involved in key aspects of North Korea’s weapons program, including its development of ballistic missiles.

The indictment is linked right there if you want to read it.

The indictment does not say whether she knew that she was involved with North Korea. I thought that everybody knows how out-of-bounds that is. And its Munitions Industry Department? There is some text about "Chineese". I am grappling. There is something big going on here.

Lesson learned: do background checks on your criminal associates to make sure they aren't North Korea.

> reads more like government/corporate propaganda than an objective report

She forged checks and trafficked stolen identities. She may not have known she was doing it for Pyongyang. But that’s the point of anti-money laundering laws.

Right, it's not like she was some hapless woman who accidentally ran into supporting North Korea's weapons program. she was criming with criminals and doing criminal shit.

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