How would the average background check miss someone like that?
Ulsch: The person is deemed low level and they either have not had a background investigation at all because investigations may focus on executive-level employees, or they received a standard local court of jurisdiction check. Over past five or seven years, maybe they lived in two or three jurisdictions and you go back and check with the courts. Each of those courts were reviewed for arrests and convictions, and you don’t find anything. But the person could be a felon convicted and arrested under federal standards. But because no federal court background investigation was authorized, the company never learns about the federal convictions. And that person could go on to do some damage … Ulsch: Yes. The person may have ties to organized crime in Russia, or maybe he sells these thousands of fingerprints that are later used for identity theft or to commit a terrorist act. You can have a terrorist who ends up with one of these IDs and uses it to gain entrance into the U.S. Later, the invest
