US gov't: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk

The bottom line is there is no honour amongst thieves. Even sold as parts if he had dismantled them himself at some point a fence would get caught with phone parts they had no audit trail for, and part # would line up with congress shipments of secured devices.

This theft was doomed from birth. Far smarter to have sold the phone IMEI to a foreign power for a shitload more money and get out to a non extradition nation state.