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Former FBI agent pleads guilty to destroying records in connection with former state senator's trial
KNWA Fayettesville ^ | C.C. McCandless

Posted on 08/19/2022 4:05:27 PM PDT by NoLibZone

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) - On August 17, a former FBI agent signed a plea agreement, admitting that he destroyed records on a computer hard drive.

A criminal information filing in the Western District of Arkansas Federal Court states that Robert Cessario “did corruptly alter, destroy, and mutilate an object, that is, a computer hard drive” in 2017. The hard drive he destroyed contained records pertaining to the federal prosecution of former Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods of Springdale.

Woods was found guilty of corruption in May 2018 and sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison. After he began serving his sentence in a Texas prison, Woods sent a letter to then-President Donald Trump volunteering to help build a proposed border wall. The names and signatures of 80 inmates volunteering were included in the letter.

Ex-Arkansas senator seeks retrial of corruption conviction The August 17 plea agreement states that Cessario was a special agent with the FBI and was “one of the primary agents investigating, and assisting in the prosecution of, defendants in United States vs. Woods, et al.”

In my capacity as a special agent and as part of the investigation, I obtained recordings from a cooperating defendant. I placed these recordings on a government computer that had been issued to me for use in conducting covert operations that would not be traceable to a government computer. I knew that these recordings pertained to the prosecution in United States vs. Woods, et al.

I took the computer to a commercial computer business and paid that company to “wipe” the computer. I personally performed another procedure to “wipe” the computer. I erased the contents of the computer hard drive knowing that the Court had ordered that the computer be submitted for a forensic examination. I did so with the intention of making the contents of the computer’s hard drive unavailable for forensic examination.

I am guilty of the violation alleged. Robert Cessario, in his August 17 plea agreement signed in Federal Court His August 17 court appearance took less than 20 minutes. Cessario was issued a $5,000 bond and he awaits sentencing.

He faces up to 20 years in prison followed by up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.


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KEYWORDS: arkansas; badcop; bobcessario; borderwall; cessario; cessation; corruption; evidence; evidencetampering; fbi; fbiguilty; fbitrump; jonwoods; robcessario; robertcessario; trump; wiped; withholdingevidence
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FBI once again Convicted of fabricating and or withholding evidence in trial of Republican Trump supporter.
1 posted on 08/19/2022 4:05:27 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

I wonder if any Freepers here work for the FBI and can give us an inside look into what the hell is going on with that agency. Me personally, I would absolutely resign before I ever raided Trumps home, no way I hell would I ever do that. You want me to raid Trumps home? Fine. Let’s raid Hillarys first and then the Bidens.


2 posted on 08/19/2022 4:09:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: NoLibZone

The dirty agents give the other 5% a bad name.


3 posted on 08/19/2022 4:10:01 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: NoLibZone
If a person who was not a government employee did this, it would be a very serious crime. There would be multiple charges, which would include suppression of evidence, interference with an investigation, violation of the civil rights of the person accused, violation of the Federal Records Act, destruction of government property, and many more. All federal crimes, all prosecuted by the DOJ.

Of course, that's if the person who did this was not a government employee.

4 posted on 08/19/2022 4:10:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: NoLibZone

They did the same to Ted Stevens in Alaska.


5 posted on 08/19/2022 4:10:05 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: bray

That’s ONE. Only 34,999 to go .


6 posted on 08/19/2022 4:11:26 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
The FBI has always been very political.

Under Hoover, it trended conservative.

Once Hoover was gone, It became further and further left leaning.

7 posted on 08/19/2022 4:11:50 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: NoLibZone

Throw the book at him.


8 posted on 08/19/2022 4:12:02 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: NoLibZone

Um...Hillary desyroyed more, and worse


9 posted on 08/19/2022 4:12:54 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: NoLibZone

So much for the FBI just being rotten at the top.


10 posted on 08/19/2022 4:13:19 PM PDT by beekay (Justice for Ashli Babbitt! Say her name.)
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To: bray

2% max.


11 posted on 08/19/2022 4:13:36 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: NoLibZone
So as it turns out there was one FBI guy who didn't want to destroy Candidate or President Trump, and he now admits it. Not too surprising, this guy is a nut job.
12 posted on 08/19/2022 4:15:22 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (It's a failed virus but a hugely successful propaganda campaign.)
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13 posted on 08/19/2022 4:16:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: NoLibZone

In the mean time, Jon Woods is still languishing in prison. Wrongly “convicted”.

That FBI puke should be hanged by the neck until he is dead.


14 posted on 08/19/2022 4:17:11 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: bray

Re:”The dirty agents give the other 5% a bad name.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

0.05% is likely more accurate.


15 posted on 08/19/2022 4:19:18 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: bray
The dirty agents give the other 5% a bad name.

The other 95% are complicit in their silence and inaction for decades. It is a brotherhood that covers each other’s asses. It’s part of their code. Nothing will restore the FBI’s long tarnished reputation. The FBI needs to be shuttered and responsibilities need to move to state and local law enforcement. Perhaps the FBI crime lab could be resurrected somewhere else in the federal government, but zero FBI employees should ever be employed in government again.

16 posted on 08/19/2022 4:20:23 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: NoLibZone

Gangsta!


17 posted on 08/19/2022 4:25:05 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: NoLibZone

“””Cessario was issued a $5,000 bond and he awaits sentencing.

He faces up to 20 years in prison followed by up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.”””


But will he actually be sentenced to 20 years in prison?????


18 posted on 08/19/2022 4:25:07 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: NoLibZone

Isn’t that just agency policy? I guess he wasn’t supposed to get caught.


19 posted on 08/19/2022 4:30:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: marktwain
The FBI has always been very political. Under Hoover, it trended conservative. Once Hoover was gone, It became further and further left leaning.

Your observations are true and I think that strengthens the case to dismantle the organization.

20 posted on 08/19/2022 4:35:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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