Posted on 04/29/2020 8:05:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Los Angeles-area lawyer bribed agents from the FBI and ICE to provide “protection,” for him, with one scouring law enforcement databases to warn him of ongoing investigations, while the other cooked the books to help a client and a relative with immigration matters, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court this week.
Edgar Sargsyan, the 39-year-old lawyer, also admitted he and an accomplice also took out credit cards in the names of foreigners who’d come to the U.S. on travel visas, then charged hundreds of thousands of dollars to their accounts.
He agreed to plead guilty to five felony counts ranging from conspiracy to commit bank fraud to bribing a public official to lying to investigators.
But authorities last week charged former FBI Agent Babak Broumand with conspiracy to commit bribery, accusing him of accepting cash and gifts from a Los Angeles-area lawyer. The details of the two cases appear to match up — particularly the allegation that Mr. Sargsyan paid $36,000 at a Ducati dealership for a motorcycle and accessories for the FBI agent. The same purchase shows up in the criminal information filed against Mr. Broumand.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Mr. Sargsyan worked with Lev Aslan Dermen, whom they described as a “reputed organized crime figure.”
The FBI agent was paid up to $10,000 a month, treated to lavish hotel stays and the Ducati motorcycle to scour federal law enforcement databases and spot ongoing investigations. He would then warn Mr. Sargsyan to “stay away” from certain people.
Mr. Sargsyan says the HSI agent was paid at least $77,000 to scour databases in order to help the lawyer’s associates.
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Soooo, is this sort of thing not allowed?
Typical Leave It To Beaver white boy, all American name right there.
Maybe he will buy all of them a this a steak dinner.
Any idea in which years the crimes were committed? Conveniently left out, at least in this part of the article.
We know ‘stuff’ is going on just because of the large numbers of illegals living in our country... Illegals been getting help for years.
Well, what a disgusting picture. I don’t suppose it ever occurred to you that if Hannity DIDN’T, make that caveat, that he’d be excoriated for not supporting those among the FBI that ARE straight and by the book?
OMG!!! FBI Agent BABAK BROUMAND!!! I thought the Agents were SO PURE and GOOD!!!
Lawyer right up there with news media.
Not the first time this has happened.
I googled him, and he was involved with the Clintons... there was also a pic of him standing next to Obunghole...
Bttt.
5.56mm
Learning of all the corruption makes my hair hurt. They’re ALL criminal pigs.
And yet tonight, Sean will say “ninety percent are good, decent people”. No; they’re not.
“If the so called “good” agents are so good, why haven’t we heard of them turning in the bad ones”
THAT is the question.
The Stasi were good people, too.
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