Ex-Labor Department employee admits bootleg movie operation

[Reefa]

Washington (CNN)A former longtime Labor Department employee admitted Friday to running a bootleg movie operation within the department's headquarters in Washington.

Ricardo Taylor -- a three-decade Labor veteran who was the supervisor of the department's mailroom -- will serve 24 months' probation with no prison time after pleading guilty to a federal charge of copyright law violation.

According to court documents, Taylor, 57, used a five-bay DVD burner to copy and then sell pirated movies. Court documents say Taylor began his operation as early as 2008, and he ran the pirating operation during work hours, selling his colleagues pirated DVDs for $4 or $5 each.

As part of the operation, Taylor took advantage of his Department of Labor email and contacts in order to help his colleagues place their orders, authorities said.

In 2013 alone, Taylor's last year in the Labor Department, he made more than $19,000 from his pirating scheme, copying and selling 1,268 copies to his colleagues.

It was not clear when Taylor was charged. A message left with his attorney late Friday afternoon was not immediately returned.

In addition to his job at the Labor Department, Taylor also was a manager of a movie theater over the past decade.

Court documents state that Taylor kept a ledger of his sales, including his customers' names. The list has not been released to the public.

cnn.com

[steven36]

I cant believe this made world news . in the US its about conman as someone selling grass on the street comer. If they didn't give him nothing but probation him being the suppler . They want do nothing at all to the buyers but maybe give them a warning.

[Reefa]

@steven36 Have you got the link to the original m8..

[Reefa]

I cant believe this made world news . in the US its about conman as someone selling grass on the street comer. If they didn't give him nothing but probation him being the suppler . They want do nothing at all to the buyers but maybe give them a warning.

@steven36 Have you got the link to the original m8..

[steven36]

I cant believe this made world news . in the US its about conman as someone selling grass on the street comer. If they didn't give him nothing but probation him being the suppler . They want do nothing at all to the buyers but maybe give them a warning.

@steven36 Have you got the link to the original m8..

The story is from Washington, D.C here is were a local news station reported it from that area.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Ex-Supervisor-Admits-Bootlegging-DVDs-at-Labor-Dept-Headquarters-324435451.html

I see why it made world news now its because it was in the place that's over unemployment and employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Labor

But its everywhere in every city in the US But if this would happened in the projects it would never been nothing said lol. :lol:

[Reefa]

I cant believe this made world news . in the US its about conman as someone selling grass on the street comer. If they didn't give him nothing but probation him being the suppler . They want do nothing at all to the buyers but maybe give them a warning.

@steven36 Have you got the link to the original m8..

The story is from Washington, D.C here is were a local news station reported it from that area.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Ex-Supervisor-Admits-Bootlegging-DVDs-at-Labor-Dept-Headquarters-324435451.html

I see why it made world news now its because it was in the place that's over unemployment and employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Labor

But its everywhere in every city in the US But if this would happened in the projects it would never been nothing said lol. :lol:

Nice 1 for the info..

No different over this side of the pond m8..Mainstream can just eat it.. :moon:

[steven36]

I cant believe this made world news . in the US its about conman as someone selling grass on the street comer. If they didn't give him nothing but probation him being the suppler . They want do nothing at all to the buyers but maybe give them a warning.

@steven36 Have you got the link to the original m8..

The story is from Washington, D.C here is were a local news station reported it from that area.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Ex-Supervisor-Admits-Bootlegging-DVDs-at-Labor-Dept-Headquarters-324435451.html

I see why it made world news now its because it was in the place that's over unemployment and employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Labor

But its everywhere in every city in the US But if this would happened in the projects it would never been nothing said lol. :lol:

Nice 1 for the info..

No different over this side of the pond m8..Mainstream can just eat it.. :moon:

This kind of piracy has been around forever long before the internet was around or even Cassettes or DVD . They were bootleg tapes . People like me are you that have High speed dont need to buy them but its still a big market because not everyone has the internet yet or just dont know they can download it watch it and delete it.