ricardo taylor made about $60,000 a year and nearly 40-year veteran of the u.s. labor department, working for the office of worker's compensation headquartered at agency head quarters not of the u.s. cap to $60,000 was his regular pay because taylor admits he ran a side business inside the office, he sold bootlegged dvd movies, more than 1200 of them worth an estimated $19,000, though he sold some for as little as $4 a piece and admit he is used his work e-mail system, the u.s. labor department e-mail system to make the sales. i'm scott with channel four. >> mm-hmm. >> the news4 i-team caught up with taylor. we were wondering, who is buying all those dvds? >> co-workers. friends and co-workers. >> inside the building? >> yes. >> reporter: fbi and internal labor department investigators got wind of taylor's scheme and found he used a five-bay dvd burner to make those pirated movies and made the sales during business owners and that he kept a log of his sales, including the customers. but how did he make so many steels so many federal workers under the agency's nos

ricardo taylor made about $60,000 a year and nearly 40-year veteran of the u.s. labor department, working for the office of worker's compensation headquartered at agency head quarters not of the u.s. cap to $60,000 was his regular pay because taylor admits he ran a side business inside the office, he sold bootlegged dvd movies, more than 1200 of them worth an estimated $19,000, though he sold some for as little as $4 a piece and admit he is used his work e-mail system, the u.s. labor department e-mail system to make the sales. i'm scott with channel four. >> mm-hmm. >> the news4 i-team caught up with taylor. we were wondering, who is buying all those dvds? >> co-workers. friends and co-workers. >> inside the building? >> yes.

tonight a news4 i-team revealed long time agency employee ricardo taylor admitted to running a movie bootlegging operation inside labor department offices in d.c. court records say taylor made more than 1200 illegal dvds worth about $19,000 and sold them using the agency's e-mail system while on the job. taylor pleaded guilty to copyright infringement, and will now serve 24 months' probation. >> who is buying all those dvds? >> coworkers. friends and coworkers. >> people inside the building? >> yes. >> who were the customers? the labor department and its internal auditors declined to comment. taylor has a new job now. he is working at a movie theater. >>> it's one of the most read stories on the nbc washington app right now. man is undergoing mental evaluation for what he is doing in this picture. he climbed the fence of the lions den at the national zoo. zoo police were able to get to him before he got to the lions. this happened on wednesday afternoon. the zoo says the den meets safety standards. there are no plans to make any changes to the enclosure. >>> new at 11, pepco crews ar