This Week on At Issue, Tom Hauser is back in the newsroom.
Hauser recently travelled to Washington, D.C., where Governor Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison testified about Minnesota’s ongoing fraud issues. Hauser shares what was discussed in that hearing and how lawmakers are reacting.
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is now moving out of that position. Her departure at the end of the month will be the first major shakeup in President Trump’s Cabinet during his second term.
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, a White Bear Lake woman who was serving in the U.S. Army in Kuwait, was killed as war erupted in the Middle East. Hauser talks about how she is being honored back home.
All this and more on this week’s edition of At Issue.
THE TD BANK INSIDER “BRIBE-FOR-DATA” SCHEME (USA)
Date: February 17, 2026 Perpetrator: Edward Low (Former Bank Employee)
Case Description: In a high-profile case of “Insider Threat,” Edward Low, a former employee of TD Bank in New York, pleaded guilty in a New Jersey federal court to accepting bribes in exchange for confidential customer data. Between 2021 and 2022, Low leveraged his internal access to harvest the personal details of high-balance account holders. He then sold this “hot data” to external fraud syndicates for as little as $26,700 in personal kickbacks.
The external fraudsters used the information Low provided to conduct “Account Takeovers” (ATO), creating fraudulent checks and falsifying bank records to drain over $500,000 from unsuspecting customers. Low even went as far as helping co-conspirators open shell company accounts at a second financial institution where he was later employed. He now faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. This case has sent shockwaves through the global banking sector, highlighting that even the most robust external firewalls cannot protect against a “rogue insider” with administrative credentials.
Link to Original: US Dept of Justice – TD Bank Insider Plea