This caught my eye:

Former prosecutor and assistant FBI director Chris Swecker said the credibility issues that cropped up from Joffe’s early career raise questions about how he managed to pass an FBI personal background check and obtain the government’s highest security clearances and win several bids for sensitive federal contracts despite his checkered past, although he noted that such background checks were often ridiculed in the bureau as “a joke.”

Despite or because of?

He relocated then to Phoenix from Los Angeles and changed the name of his mass-marketing firm American Computer Group to “Whitehat Data Services.” Instead of targeting consumers, he developed a reputation as a cyber-security expert and, ironically, a champion of consumers battling abusive direct-marketers and spammers.

That's irony right there. I do notice criminals often brand themselves as the opposite of what they are. If they are child trafficker they run an organization for "saving the kids". If they are a thief they brand themselves as "safe and reliable". Always opposite of what they are.