A former Harris County Sheriff deputy has been convicted of using his access to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to sell confidential data to an individual working as a confidential informant for the FBI.
From the Houston Office of the FBI:
The charges against Green are the result of an FBI undercover operation initiated after receiving information that Kurt Green, an employee of the HCSO assigned to the jail, sold information from the federal database known as NCIC. The NCIC database is maintained by the FBI. On Jan. 12, 2010, in a recorded telephone conversation, the informant provided deputy Green with the names of 10 persons—none of whom were under investigation—and requested criminal histories for the informant’s personal use. A week later, on Jan. 19, Green and the informant met in a parking lot in Houston. In an audio/video recording Green provided NCIC printouts for seven of the 10 persons to the informant, explained the printouts were from the NCIC database, and was paid $4900 by the informant for the information.
Green faces a maximum punishment of five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and a maximum fine of $250,000.
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