Shenanigans like that usually land you in jail for 20+ years, but this is a presidential committee, so it's totally different.

And I'm not justifying anyone here. From my limited perspective, the guy doesn't belong anywhere near this place, but then again, I might have the same perspective for multiple people already operating there.

GovExec, About: "In March of 2020, we committed our entire organization to creating the leading sales and marketing intelligence company serving the public sector" (added emphasis)

I.e, it may just be that the that the story is written by an organization that is losing it's funding.

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/about/

[2] https://about.govexec.com/company/about/

These days a criminal record is no bar for any computer-related thing...or at least it shouldn't be. However, it'd be prudent to monitor what they're keeping. Anyone who's any good will be keeping little nuggets of stuff for the future.