This international criminal web is huge. Merrick Garland and "The Octopus"

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79. Eaton Corporation

Interesting story involving Eaton last year..

Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

https://web.archive.org/web/20250822000859im_/

A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled.

Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national living legally in Houston, worked for an Ohio-based company, reportedly Eaton Corporation, from 2007 until his termination in 2019.

After a corporate restructuring and subsequent demotion in 2018, the DOJ says that Lu retaliated by embedding malicious code throughout the company's Windows production environment.

The malicious code included an infinite Java thread loop designed to overwhelm servers and crash production systems.

Lu also created a kill switch named "IsDLEnabledinAD" ( "Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory" ) that would automatically lock all users out of their accounts if his account was disabled in Active Directory. ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250822000859/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-gets-4-years-for-creating-kill-switch-on-ex-employers-systems/

Going back to Trump. Whatever his role was through the years in so many nefarious activities it seems to have been important enough for certain people in position of power to protect Trump whenever things got too hot.

Authors Sarah Kendzior (Hiding in Plain Sight) and Craig Unger ( American Kompromat ) have written extensively about Trump's ties.