IT cause NY Mayor downfall
Have you read about the US Mayor prostitute scandal? Yup.. the guy blew US$10,000 a night with high-class prostitutes from Emperors Club VIP - sometime even more. I’m not going into details but read more about it here.
What is not widely publicised is how this was discovered. The use of IT in the monitoring of all banking activities in USA is the culprit originator. As part of the anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism initiatives, all banks in USA have to diligently file with US Treasury something called Suspicious Activity Report (SAR). (Bank Negara also has similar system with the banks here). With some remarkable accuracy, out of the billions of transactions per month, they managed to single out Client #9 (that’s the mayor) suspicious activities - even though he had carefully avoided making payments over US$10,000 - which would have automatically be captured by the SAR. Read the article How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring from zdnet.
Another interesting IT angle is that the escort agency Emperors Club VIP has an official website, albeit hosted at a cheap Homestead web-hosting place. (Rates start from $4.99/mo) Apparently e-commerce friendly some more.
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