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The election software CEO who picked up more than a quarter-million dollars from Michigan Economic Development Corp. funding is facing theft and embezzlement charges in addition to accusations of putting poll worker personal information on a Chinese server.
Eugene Yu, founder and CEO of Konnech, Inc., was arrested with extradition to Los Angeles County pending on Oct. 5. The Center Square previously reported Konnech received $306,000 of Michigan Economic Development Corp. funding last November. This was roughly a decade after Yu’s company had gained $247,139 from the U.S. Department of Defense between 2010 and 2011.
Yu is facing felony charges he and his company stole and embezzled more than $100,000 when it stored thousands of Los Angeles County election workers’ personal information on the server based in China. The two complaints were filed earlier this week in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
The charges against Yu are related to Konnech’s contract to provide the company’s PollChief election software with Los Angeles County. The software is designed to manage election-worker payroll, assignments, and communications, and has been used in Wayne County, DeKalb County, Ga., and Fairfax County, Va.
Los Angeles County signed a contract with Konnech in 2019 for $2,645,000. The contract stipulated all personal information would be kept in the United States and handled only by U.S. citizens. That didn’t happen, according to the Los Angeles County prosecutor.
“Based on evidence recovered from a search warrant executed October 4, 2022, the District Attomey’s Office discovered that Konnech employees known and unknown sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with creating and fixing Konnech’s intemal ‘PollChief’ software,” the prosecutor’s complaint reads.
George Gascón, the Los Angeles County prosecutor, previously stated that any alleged wrongdoing by Yu or Konnech […]
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