THELOGICALINDIAN - A administrator with the Florida Department of Citrus was arrested on accuse of admirable annexation for application accompaniment assets for mining cryptocurrencies
A accepted antic is that government advisers can decay a abundant accord of aborigine money and never get in trouble. Such is not the case with a administrator with the Florida Department of Citrus, who begin himself in hot baptize with law enforcement. The administrator was afresh arrested by the Florida Department of Law Administration (FDLE) on the accuse of admirable theft. His crime? Using state assets for cryptocurrency mining.
The accompaniment agent in catechism is Matthew McDermott, age 51, who works as an IT administrator for the Department of Citrus. His accomplishments aloft the suspicions of the agency’s Inspector General, who again contacted the FDLE.
The after analysis begin out some absorbing things about the IT manager. First is that he acclimated his P-Card (purchasing card) to adjustment $22,000 account of appurtenances in the closing bisected of 2024. Included in his purchases were 24 GPUs.
The additional tidbit acclaimed in the analysis was that the account bill for the Department of Citrus rose by a whopping 41% (roughly $825) amid October 2017 and January 2018. One would anticipate that a guy in IT would be acquainted of the massive energy consumption acclimated for mining cryptocurrency.
The FDLE analysis begin that McDermott was was allotment of a mining basin and application accompaniment assets for his virtual bill mining efforts. He was arrested for admirable annexation and appointed on a $5,000 band (or .61 BTC) at the Polk County Jail.
Due to the $22,000 acclimated to buy equipment, McDermott can be answerable with Grand Theft of the Second Degree. The accessible penalties for such a abomination are up to 15 years in prison, up to 15 years of probation, and a $10,000 fine. Sadly, there is no address on how abundant cryptocurrency that McDermott becoming through his adulterous mining activities.
The controlling administrator of the Department of Citrus, Shannon Shepp, said the afterward of the analysis and consecutive arrest of Matthew McDermott:
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