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D.C.'s Top IT Security Official Charged with Bribery

Federal law enforcement officials filed bribery charges today against the District of Columbia's acting chief security officer, along with a one-time D.C. government employee who owns an IT outsourcing company that runs offshore operations in India.

By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld (US)

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Acar is also accused of hiring ghost employees through a vendor and allegedly approving timesheets for them.

In what the government officials described as the "McAfee Software Scheme," Bansal's firm submitted a purchase order for 2,000 units of McAfee Foundstone software, which is used to provide automated scanning and vulnerability assessments, for $104,166. McAfee generated a quote for AITC for the purchase of 500 units of the software at $36,845, but AITC, the provider in this case, charged the D.C. government for 2,000 licenses.

© 2009 Computerworld Inc.

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