FBI Raids Over 40 Texas Homes, Charges Americans in North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’ Scheme

Federal prosecutors in Ohio have charged two American men, one from Philadelphia and one from Texas, with helping North Korean IT workers land remote positions at more than 70 U.S. companies. The workers allegedly used stolen or fake identities to collect paychecks that largely returned to the regime in Pyongyang.

Authorities charged 14 people in total through a Northern District of Ohio indictment that also covers ten China-based defendants who remain at large and two individuals whose names are sealed…