Insider Risk Stories

Former Controller for BMW, Vanessa Vence-Small was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after she pled guilty to embezzling $1.1 million. . Between October 2014 and June 2017, Vence-Small made 65 unauthorized electronic fund transfers from...

Former Vice President and Controller of Reston-based government IT contractor NCI Inc., Jon Frank pleaded guilty to embezzling over $19 million over a 10-year span. Beginning in 2007 until he was discovered in January 2017, Jon Frank initiated transfers from the...

Mr. Kevin Mallory, of Leesburg Virginia and former US government employee, is looking at possible life in prison, if convicted, following charges of gathering/ delivering defense information to aid a foreign government. In 2012, he began running his own consulting...

A former Coca-Cola executive assistant was convicted of conspiring to steal trade secrets and sell classified documents to rival Pepsi for at least $1.5 million. Williams stole 14 pages of documents marked as “Classified Confidential” and “Classified Restricted,”...

Former Certegy Check Services employee William Sullivan plead guilty to stealing 8.4 million consumer records over a 5-year span. 5.6 million of these records contained bank information and 1.5 million records had consumer credit card information. Sullivan sold the...

A former loan processor for a banking institution had responsibilities that allowed full privileges to read and modify loan information. As a result, the individual took out two loans totaling $39,000 from her employer to fund her own personal expenses. In total, she...

A 20-year employee of Fry’s Electronics was found guilty of embezzling $65.6 million over a four-year period from the electronic store to pay off his debt and fuel his lavish lifestyle. According to the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), Omar Siddiqui created back-room...

On a cold Sunday afternoon in 2015, 62,643 fans gathered at Soldier Field to watch the Chicago Bears vs. Denver Broncos. Monterrey Security Consultants Inc., a contractor for the Chicago Bears, assisted with making sure the venue was safe from security issues. Two...

Former Customs and Border Protection Officer Hector Rodriguez was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bribery, facilitating illegal immigration for financial gain, and conspiracy by US District Court in...

On the morning of September 16, 2013, contractor Aaron Alexis, operating with a Secret Clearance, used his facility badge to access the grounds of the Navy Yard in Washington DC, shoot 15 people and kill 12 in a tragic mass shooting. On his clearance application he...