turns out that guy was a russian spy and he worked at sergei gorekov's bank. federal agents picked up that guy at the supermarket and charged him with being an unregistered agent of a foreign power, russia. in march 2016 he pled guilty. the criminal indictment in this case was absolutely riveting. he not only used his position at the bank to secretly gather information that he fed as intentionally to the russian spies, he full on stole u.s. government documents which is part of how they caught him. he was involved in trying to steal information about u.s. government sanctions against russia, which russian institutions were going to be targeted for sanctions, which people were going to be targeted. object extensively he worked at this bank. he was an undercover russian agent, because he didn't have a connection to an embassy, he didn't have any way to secretly transmit his intel home to moscow center, to the spy hub back home. so it's all laid out in the indictment. held, sir, rip titiously hand off scraps of paper and do dead drops and passing stuff, all that