Posted on Friday 16 December 2005
A former Labor Department official is guilty of stealing 12 government laptop computers. The former official was the Supervisory Program Manager for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).
Basit Chaudhary pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information this morning at U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. The information, filed on Nov. 2, 2005, charged Chaudhary with felony theft of government property for stealing and converting to his own use a total of 12 laptop computers belonging to ETA. The computers were valued at approximately $24,000.
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As part of his plea agreement, Chaudhary admitted that he stole a total of 12 laptop computers from ETA during 2003 and that he sold six of these computers to private parties.