Ex-F.B.I. Agent Is Charged In Plot to Sell Documents
Ex-F.B.I. Agent Is Charged In Plot to Sell Documents
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Published: August 2, 2013
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The former agent, Robert Lustyik, was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in late 2011 when he began plotting with a friend, Johannes Thaler, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday in Federal District Court in White Plains, N.Y.
“I will work my magic .... We r sooooooo close,” Agent Lustyik wrote in an exchange of text messages with Mr. Thaler, the complaint said.
“I know,” Mr. Thaler replied. “It’s all right here in front of us. Pretty soon we’ll be having lunch in our oceanfront restaurant.”
The Bangladeshi who had sought the materials, Rizve Ahmed, paid a total of $1,000 to Mr. Lustyik and Mr. Thaler for two F.B.I. documents concerning Mr. Ahmed’s political rival, the complaint said. One was a suspicious activity report; the other was a memo about the man that mentioned $300 million, the complaint said without elaboration. The men planned to seek tens of thousands of dollars in additional bribes for other confidential information, the complaint said.
The complaint did not identify the rival, whom the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, described as “a prominent citizen of Bangladesh who was affiliated with an opposing political party” of Mr. Ahmed’s.
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