Posted on 06/06/2015 7:28:31 AM PDT by grumpygresh
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former FBI special agent has been indicted for allegedly stealing over $100,000 in drug money seized during the execution of search warrants, the Justice Department said Thursday. Scott Bowman, 44, was charged on Wednesday with three counts of conversion of property by a federal employee, three counts of obstruction, two counts of money laundering, one count of falsifying records and one count of witness tampering. The indictment was unsealed on Thursday and alleges Bowman stole the money between June and August 2014, after the funds were transferred to his custody following the execution of search warrants. Bowman went on a spending spree with the money, blowing $43,000 for a Dodge Challenger and $27,500 on a Toyota Scion - and nearly $27,000 to outfit the vehicles with new rims, speakers and tires, the indictment alleges. The Justice Department also says Bowman spent $15,000 to pay for his wife's plastic surgery and deposited nearly $11,000 into a checking account, which he used to pay for a weekend stay at a luxury resort in Las Vegas, according to the indictment. Finding it necessary to create a cover story for his cash windfall, the 21-page indictment says that Bowman allegedly told colleagues he had received a $96,000 advance on his inheritance from his sick father. As questions mounted from other law enforcement officers, Bowman allegedly told FBI supervisors that employees of the company where the agency deposits drug money for safekeeping had commingled different seizures, according to the indictment. Bowman also allegedly asked another agent to lie for him and even provided the agent with a cover story to use if investigators questioned him, the indictment says. The case is being investigated by DOJ's Office of the Inspector General and prosecuted by the department's public integrity section.
If you’re gonna do the crime and risk possible takedown, at least make it something worth stealing. $100K ain’t sh!t.
>>Just think how many others do the same thing without being so obvious.
Generation XBox’s indoctrination has led its hive members to believe that there are no consequences. Game over? just press the reset button for another life.
Meanwhile the reality clock keeps ticking closer to Nature’s inevitable ruling ala Romans 1:25...
Gave up a sweet lifetime job too, with fantastic benefits. Dumb.
If I was going to do this, the money would be
buried for years before it was “repatriated”
Throwing away a great career, pension and benefits for a NEW SET OF RIMS...
Slow and steady Mexicanization of US law enforcement.
Gone are the days when “there never was a crooked FBI man”...
‘$27,000 to outfit the vehicles with new rims’
OK, now I have to find a picture to see if I’m right....
Well. I found pictures of the cars, but not the perp. So odds are I was right, and he’s of a protected (by the media) class.
Well, you’d need to see ‘before and after’ pictures of the wife to determine if the plastic surgery expenses were a better investment than a trade-in.
Hoover was right, they should never have gotten involved in the drug investigation business! Should have just settled for retrieving stolen cars and investigating bank robberies.
Is this the LA office? Seems they have had some problems in the past. I recall one agent selling stuff out of his car while he was convorting with a Russian Spy back in the 80s.
He was in the Riverside branch...a fair bit more inland than L.A.
Actually I don't think it matters to the process of totalizing the dictatorship whoever wins the election. No Republican will clean out the Democrat and Moslem operatives who make up almost all of the higher levels of the agencies and it requires someone of Reagan's forcefulness to get anything at all past a Democrat congress and it WILL be a Democrat congress. probably with a large majority in the House and a majority in the Senate. The Republicans in the present Congress are performing so poorly that I cannot see Republicans retaining any sort of useful presence in the House after the election. And the Senate will suely tun over again for the same reason
I've noticed before this use of "Ex-FBI", Ex-DEA" labeling before and it is misleading, I think.
When they a are busted on the job, I think that we are more capable of knowing that "FBI Agent Charged With Swiping Drug Money" means what it means, rather than trying to figure out if a retired FBI agent, or a Burger franchise owner who USED to work for the FBI, stole some money or committed a crime, none of us have to figure out that he is no longer working there after the charges are filed.
A story is a lot less meaningful, if a guy who left the FBI in 1998 is committing a crime as a truly "EX" FBI agent.
At least he deposited 11,000.00 into his checking account and not 9999.99 or they would have really poured it on him!
This is like post heist spending spree in “Good Fellas” where the guy with the toupe buys his wife a new Cadillac and a mink coat.
Not true, not true. The jackboot lickers maintain that everything the police do is righteous and holy.
At least in Mexico, bribes can get you out of trouble.
If/when we get the 3rd world police state, I hope that bribes can get you over the border or past the checkpoint.
Yeah, as soon as I saw the bit about the “rims,” a certain suspicion went from stage 1 to stage 2.
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