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.
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.
The dirty agents give the other 5% a bad name.
Of course, that's if the person who did this was not a government employee.
They did the same to Ted Stevens in Alaska.
That’s ONE. Only 34,999 to go .
Under Hoover, it trended conservative.
Once Hoover was gone, It became further and further left leaning.
Throw the book at him.
Um...Hillary desyroyed more, and worse
So much for the FBI just being rotten at the top.
2% max.
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.
Re:”The dirty agents give the other 5% a bad name.”
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0.05% is likely more accurate.
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.
Gangsta!
“””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?????
Isn’t that just agency policy? I guess he wasn’t supposed to get caught.
Your observations are true and I think that strengthens the case to dismantle the organization.
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