Angela Aquino ran for New York City public advocate in 2025. FILE PHOTO
LOS ANGELES – A Filipino American former candidate for New York City public advocate has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a scheme to fraudulently obtain $1 million in taxpayer-funded campaign matching funds, federal prosecutors said.
Angela Aquino, 47, entered her guilty plea Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn before US Magistrate Judge Vera Scanlon, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
She faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing.
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IT & DATA SECURITY (MITIGATING THE “INSIDER THREAT”)
As seen in the TD Bank case, an employee with too much “access” can sell your customer data to syndicates.
- Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP): Employees should only have access to the specific folders and databases required for their current task.
- Access Revocation: Have a “Termination Checklist” that ensures all digital access (Email, VPN, Banking) is revoked within 60 minutes of an employee resigning or being dismissed.
- System Logs & Audit Trails: Enable “Read/Write Logging” on your server. If a customer’s data is leaked, you need to know exactly which login accessed that record and at what time.
- Encryption at Rest: Ensure that sensitive files (like your customer ID numbers or payroll spreadsheets) are encrypted so that if a staff member copies them to a USB, they cannot be read.