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Related: About this forumFeds charge ex-FBI agent in alleged bribery scheme
A former FBI special agent in New York and two Connecticut men have been charged for their alleged roles in a bribery scheme to dig up confidential information about a key figure in Bangladeshi politics, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan said.
Robert Lustyik, 50, was arrested Friday on an allegation that he and a childhood friend, Johannes Thaler, 49, solicited cash from a third man in exchange for documents and information to which Lustyik had access to because of his FBI job.
Robert Lustyik, 50, was arrested Friday on an allegation that he and a childhood friend, Johannes Thaler, 49, solicited cash from a third man in exchange for documents and information to which Lustyik had access to because of his FBI job.
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Feds charge ex-FBI agent in alleged bribery scheme
In court documents and at the plea hearings, Lustyik and Thaler admitted that from
October 2011 to September 2012, Lustyik, while employed as an FBI counterintelligence special
agent, and Thaler conspired to use Lustyiks official position to obstruct a criminal investigation
into Michael Taylor, a businessman who owned and operated American International Security
Corporation and was under investigation for paying kickbacks to obtain a series of contracts
from the Department of Defense worth approximately $54 million.
October 2011 to September 2012, Lustyik, while employed as an FBI counterintelligence special
agent, and Thaler conspired to use Lustyiks official position to obstruct a criminal investigation
into Michael Taylor, a businessman who owned and operated American International Security
Corporation and was under investigation for paying kickbacks to obtain a series of contracts
from the Department of Defense worth approximately $54 million.
Further and more detailed information on the case(pdf):
DOJ Press Release - FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT AND CO-DEFENDANT PLEAD GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY, BRIBERY, AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE SCHEME
I find it interesting that not much attention has been brought to this? I remember mentioning some of the defense contract bribery and kickback schemes I witnessed when I was in the military and this reminded me of it.
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Feds charge ex-FBI agent in alleged bribery scheme (Original Post)
TheVisitor
Oct 2014
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)1. I posted this story earlier
but it didn't get much play either,
I think its just the tip of the iceberg on the money hole boondoggle that is the war in Afghanistan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025601707
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. Probably right.
TheVisitor
(173 posts)4. Oh thanks
for the link, I was wondering if someone else made a post or not bt I didn't see any - it is odd how no one is really paying attention to this but... i think it's time to educate the public about what is really going on
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. And Taylor pled guilty to "honest services wire fraud."
Honest services fraud refers to a 28-word sentence of 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988,[1] which states: "For the purposes of this chapter, the term scheme or artifice to defraud includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_services_fraud
I wonder what his sentence will be.