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Erwin Robinson, A History Of Hacking
Thu, March 23, 2017
We now show you another portion of the Senate hearing and the questions the Committee had for Erwin Robinson. He was the former Immigration Data Entry Clerk who - if you follow the hard evidence - took a picture of Won Hong Kim, a man who never entered Belize, and then assisted to print a Belize passport for this South Korean Fugitive, a document he never qualified for. But Robinson says he didn't do it.

Here's the Senate showing him that picture and asking him to explain himself:

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"You were the one who captured Wonhong Kim's data in the system?"

Erwin Robinson
"Yes sir."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"But we found out subsequently that Wonhong Kim was never in Belize, he was in detention."

Erwin Robinson
"I understand that too and I have found that out also."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"So how do you capture data for somebody who was in a different country?"

Erwin Robinson
"It's very rough, because I understand from my point the way it looks, but like I said that day everything was done. From my part, everything I was supposed to do I did as a process. You enter the information, you take the picture and when it came back..."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"You take the picture, whose picture did you take?"

Erwin Robinson
"I don't know. I took a picture of a man."

Hon. Elena Smith
"Did you tell Senator Lizarraga earlier that you could not take a picture of a picture to use in the system?"

Erwin Robinson
"Not to my knowledge. I have never seen it done. Not to my knowledge."

Hon. Elena Smith
"Would you be able to tell the difference between a picture that you take of me as opposed to a picture of a picture of me?"

Erwin Robinson
"I would think so, I would believe so. It would probably be blurry or maybe it would have like a glare or something."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"The other one, Wonhong Kim, you see any difference about it?"

Erwin Robinson
"Like I said it does look a little different from the others."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"You see there is a shadow. That is out of sync with what you would understand to be duress, correct?"

Erwin Robinson
"Yes sir."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"But this is the person that you said you photographed?"

Erwin Robinson
"I remember doing the photo that day."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"This is the photo that's in the system that you said you took."

Erwin Robinson
"Yes sir."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"Why is the shadow there?"

Erwin Robinson
"I really do not know. I cannot explain it. It has been a strange occurrence for me also."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"You have testified that you took the picture of man. So it was your user. This is the picture that was taken. So this would have had to be the man who sat before you right?"

Erwin Robinson
"To my knowledge, yes."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"Have you seen what the real Wonhong Kim looks like?"

Erwin Robinson
"I've see a couple pictures on the news. I've seen the image and I've not said that I've seen that specific man. The only thing that I know is that the day that I did the data, there was a man there."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"This man?"

Erwin Robinson
"To my knowledge, the man on the passport. When I'm doing the data - everything had already came, so I had no reason to think otherwise. It was already accepted by the front desk."

And as we alluded to last night, Won Hong Kim was not the only passport applicant who's image mysteriously ended up in the passport system without having been here to take a picture personally. There are others, and Robinson's user account was also used to do it. So, does it establish a pattern of behavior from Robinson, or are these other instances where - as he tells it - he was set up? Here's the back and forth he had with the Senators:

Hon. Mark Lizarraga
"How Mr. Robinson, you were involve in another case or your name in another case where there was a picture of a picture. You're familiar with that case?"

Erwin Robinson
"No sir."

Hon. Mark Lizarraga
"Mr. Yakut Sup."

Erwin Robinson
"I am not sure. Nothing ever came up about that. That one is new to me."

Hon. Mark Lizarraga
"Well again Mr. Robinson, you were the person that created the file, all on the same day."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"Yakut Sup is passport for a Turkish person. You were the data capturer person. This person would have had to come and sit in front of you as well for you to take his picture. The Auditor General says that that picture is the same as the one in his nationality certificate which turns out to be a fake and that picture as well is the same as the application form. So then how could the same picture you took also appear before you took it?"

Erwin Robinson
"I really don't know."

Hon. Aldo Salazar
"Bad luck followed you."

Erwin Robinson
"Like I said, if someone was doing this to me now, it doesn't mean that they haven't done it before. It's not something that I come to work looking for. I come to work to do my job."

Hon. Dr. Carla Barnett - UDP Senator
"The only situations are no Mr. Yakut Sup and Mr. Wonhong Kim. There may be others as well and therefore for me it's an indication that it's something that needs to be further investigated. So I'm going to ask Mr. Robinson again, is there any time at all that you were able or you tried and failed or any way of trying to take a picture of a picture? The 3 of these are indicated as being done by you."

Erwin Robinson
"Ma'am, I understand. It is very impossible for me to be able to do that, because like I said it's an open area. We have customers. So I would never try anything of that level."

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