Labor Department Employee Was Go-To Man For Pirated Movies

Ricardo Taylor, a former long-time Labor Department employee, confessed to operating a pirated movie business within the four walls of the department’s headquarters in Washington.

Taylor, who was a Labor veteran of 30 years, was the supervisor of the department’s mailroom all while selling DVDs, he burned five at a time while at work.

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. h/t cnn

Court documents say Taylor began his operation as early as 2008. In 2013 alone, Taylor’s last year in the Labor Department, he made more than $19,000 from pirating copies bought by his colleagues.