Erik Blowers, center, walks outside the courtroom Tuesday.
Posted on 11/29/2005 2:33:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An FBI agent accused of lying about two trips to Las Vegas that were paid for by an informant pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor and agreed to resign from the bureau.
Erik Blowers, once the chief legal counsel and ethics adviser for the FBI office in Charlotte, pleaded guilty to making a false report.
Blowers, 40, originally faced a felony charge of making a false statement for failing to report thousands of dollars in gifts and travel expenses paid for by homebuilder David Simonini.
The FBI agent took two trips to Las Vegas in 2000 with Simonini, a former informant who was under FBI investigation. At the time of one of the trips, Blowers was head of the FBI squad investigating Simonini.
Simonini has since pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering.
Blowers, who entered his plea in federal court in Greensboro, could get a year in prison and a $100,000 fine at sentencing in January.
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Erik Blowers, center, walks outside the courtroom Tuesday.
Whatever happened to that FBI agent who shot an unarmed teenager in the face as he (the teen) sat in the front seat of his stationary car. His girlfriend was in the passenger seat. I believe it happened in Maryland.
misdemeanor?
So, a corrupt Congressman (Cunningham) and now a corrupt FBI guy are caught.
How is it that Blanko and Nagin are still walking?
And, how is it that Berger did not serve time for stealing highly classified documents?
Help!
Hold on...this can't be right! The FBI does not have guys like this!! You found the wrong article!< / sarcasm >
This is exactly the opposite of what the FBI should be. He should serve jail time and fall in love with Bubba. This never happened under Hoover.
Christopher Braga.
He walked, was cleared of any wrong doing by the State Prosecutor in Anne Arundel County (Maryland).
He may have been sued at the federal level by the victim but I don't know the outcome.
At least the FBI is the most selective out of all the Law Enforcement agencies in US. They probably weed out a ton of trash.
Maybe you don't remember, a couple of years back a group of top FBI agents were caught falsifying travel vouchers to an ethics seminar at Quantico.
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