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Three former DHS employees were sentenced on Friday for their roles in a conspiracy to steal proprietary U.S. software and law enforcement databases for use in a commercial venture.
Charles K. Edwards, the former acting inspector general of the DHS Office of Inspector General, was sentenced to one year and six months in prison, having pleaded guilty in January 2022 to charges alleging government property theft and intent to defraud the U.S. Those charges included theft of Microsoft product activation keys valued at $350,000.
Sonal Patel, formerly enterprise applications branch chief in the IT Division at DHS-OIG, pleaded guilty in April 2019 conspiracy to commit government property theft. He was sentenced on Friday to two years probation. Murali Y. Venkata, a former IT specialist at DHS-OIG was handed four months of prison time. He was convicted in April 2022 for his role in the conspiracy for charges including wire fraud and records destruction.
