Dancer testifies at trial about affair with top DEA official

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Dancer testifies at trial about affair with top DEA official

Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
Updated 7:51 pm, Friday, June 3, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — A Brazilian dancer who entered the country illegally testified at a Manhattan trial Friday about her romantic relationship with a onetime top Drug Enforcement Administration official, saying it began months after she arrived in the United States in early 2011 and ended after his arrest last year.

Prosecutors subpoenaed Andressa Delima to testify to support their claims that now-retired DEA Agent David Polos failed to disclose his extramarital relationship with the dancer and his partial ownership of a bikini bar. They contend he knew disclosure could cause him to lose his top-secret security clearance and his job as assistant special agent in charge of the New York office.

Speaking through a Portuguese interpreter, Delima told jurors she began a romantic relationship with Polos a few months after meeting him in spring 2011 at Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge in South Hackensack, New Jersey, where she was a dancer.

She said it ended after Polos, of West Nyack, New York, was arrested in May 2015 along with Glen Glover, a now suspended DEA telecommunications specialist.



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DEA Agent David Polos, your tax dollars at work. [/center]

[bemildred]

1. That's our DEA, corrupt to the core. nt

[CanonRay]

2. They were incompetent

and corrupt back when they were the BNDD.

[Ikonoklast]

3. The DEA has to be the most corrupt law enforcement agency in this country.

Half of the agency is trying to stop the criminal activities the other half is protecting.

[valerief]

7. They couldn't be as corrupt as Congress, though. nt

[Oneironaut]

9. And 1/2 of the agency was openly arming our enemies.

Fast and Furious was treason - plain and simple. I don't care what the aim was - arming an enemy army (which is what the cartels are) is treasonous. It was also a war crime against the Mexican government. How many Mexican police and soldiers died by our guns?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Yeah

'Failed to disclose.'

Arm's length surveillance with plausible deniability is more like it.

[PeoViejo]

5. DEA are assholes

This is where you go if you can't find a job as a rent-a-cop. Nixon created the DEA by executive order. It should be eliminated in the same manner.

[valerief]

6. I thought the DEA's job was to ensure the right people brought drugs into this county

and the right people got rich from them.

[hunter]

8. It's their job to keep drug profits high, for both the legal and the illegal sorts.

It's win-win for the drug manufacturers, drug gangs, law enforcement, money-launderers, and the prison industry.

Everyone else loses.

[billhicks76]

10. So What

Busting people for weed is the problem. Who cares who he dates. Ridiculous.

[Angel Martin]

11. "Bikini bar"

is that what they call it now ?

[EX500rider]

12. It is if they don't go topless....or nude.