Security expert caught selling vulnerability assessments
Sep 10, 2003 12:00 PM
A self-proclaimed security expert is accused of trying to extort money from some D.C. area shopping malls.
Federal prosecutors say that Christian Kerodin demanded more than $120,000 from the company that owns the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City. In exchange, the company's malls would be kept off a report that Kerodin was allegedly planning to issue about malls he considered vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
A Secret Service agent posing as a company official arrested Kerodin, who earlier this year issued a similar report about a dozen area malls. Prosecutors say beforehand, Kerodin contacted executives at malls including Landmark Mall in Alexandria and Tysons Galleria in Vienna, Va.
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