Sysadmin who was tricked into taking a fight cross-country to get control back?

I read an article a few years ago, about a sysadmin who had been discovered to be running a private (porn?) server on his company’s servers, but also had sole control of system admin passwords. The really interesting bit of info was that the company execs had to trick him into taking a “business-related” cross-country flight, so they could keep him from monitoring the systems/deleting evidence long enough to reset passwords. (Obviously in the pre-Bongo age.) Not having any luck with the big G - anyone remember this story?