Congressional candidate Chris Lee acknowledged Friday that he was fired from Ingram Micro years ago because he "made a mistake." Sources familiar with the mistake say he hacked into a company computer for personal gain.
Lee was a young salesman with Ingram Micro, a computer products distributor that in 1989 was known as Ingram Micro D and operated from offices on Elmwood Avenue.
Lee, according to his co-workers at the time, somehow obtained a company credit manager's password. Then, with that password, he raised the credit limits for some of his customers and the customers of other sales people, the employees said.
That way Lee could sell the customers more of the company's products, on credit, before the billing system would flag their accounts for payment and halt further purchases.
