Too much background

TVCAlert links today to a story in the Washington Post: Agents Arrest Background Specialist at Hackers Forum. Steven 'Rombom, who also goes by Steven Rambam',

owner and chief executive of the online investigative service Pallorium Inc., is accused of impersonating a federal officer this year while trying to locate a government informant involved in a 2003 money-laundering indictment of a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney.
...Before he could sit down to lead a Saturday afternoon panel discussion entitled "Privacy is Dead . . . Get Over It," federal agents moved in to arrest him for his methods of digging up information on people.