Christina Marie Chapman was sentenced to 102 months in prison for helping North Korean IT workers obtain remote jobs at more than 300 U.S. companies, generating over $17 million for Chapman and the DPRK. The scheme used stolen, borrowed, and false U.S. identities to defeat hiring controls, with payroll income falsely reported under victims’ names and funds moved through Chapman’s U.S. financial accounts to overseas recipients. Chapman operated a U.S.-based laptop farm from her Arizona home, hosted employer-provided computers to make work appear domestic, shipped 49 devices overseas including to a China-North Korea border city, and had more than 90 laptops seized in 2023. The case highlights how DPRK IT worker operations combine identity fraud, U.S.-based facilitators, remote-access deception, and corporate onboarding gaps to generate revenue and create security exposure inside targeted organizations.