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Former FBI agent convicted of accepting $150K in bribes to provide confidential information
Fox News ^ | October 5, 2022

Posted on 10/05/2022 9:05:59 PM PDT by george76

Former CA agent helped a man tied to organized crime learn if his associates were under investigation

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A former FBI agent in Northern California who handled national security issues was convicted Tuesday of accepting at least $150,000 in gifts and cash bribes to provide confidential information to a man with organized crime ties, prosecutors said.

Babak Broumand, 56, of Lafayette, was found guilty in Los Angeles of conspiracy, bribery of a public official and monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.

He could face 15 to 45 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in January.

Broumand, who joined the FBI in 1999, worked until 2018 in the bureau's San Francisco office, where he was responsible for national security investigations, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said from 2015 to 2018, Broumand accepted "cash, checks, private jet flights, a Ducati motorcycle, hotel stays, escorts, meals, and other items of value" in return for searching law enforcement databases to help a self-proclaimed lawyer and his criminal associates learn if they were under investigation and avoid prosecution.

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Court documents refer to the lawyer only as "E.S." but his name was Edgar Sargsyan, who earlier pleaded guilty to bribing Broumand and another federal agent and testified at his trial.

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Sargsyan has admitted making a fortune by stealing identities, making credit card charges and taking out bank loans in their names, and while he falsely claimed to be an attorney he acknowledged actually paying a friend to take the bar exam under his name

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1 posted on 10/05/2022 9:05:59 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
Steal $1.5 million and you go to jail.

Steal $1.5 billion and they give you honorary degrees and Beltway cocktail parties in your honor.

2 posted on 10/05/2022 9:11:18 PM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
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To: blackdog

So true.


3 posted on 10/05/2022 9:12:28 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: george76
From 2018 :
...Fox News has learned that one of the top donors to the “Hillary Victory Fund” (HVF) in 2016 was a Los Angeles-based attorney who is alleged to have misused company funds to create his own $22 million real estate portfolio. He has also been considered by California to be one of the state's biggest tax cheats, and allegedly has ties to the Kremlin.

The donor, Edgar Sargsyan, contributed $250,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund in 2016, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, ands chaired a $100,000-a-couple Clinton fundraiser in Beverly Hills in September 2016...


4 posted on 10/05/2022 9:19:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Libloather; Fedora

Source for the above:

Clinton donor’s dealings and murky connections questioned by watchdog group (Kremlin ties?)
Fox News ^ | Perry Chiaramonte
Posted on 6/19/2018, 6:01:32 AM by Libloather


5 posted on 10/05/2022 9:20:30 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Huh. why would Russia have wanted a Clinton presidency?


6 posted on 10/05/2022 10:25:36 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: blackdog

That’s disgusting, but true.


7 posted on 10/05/2022 10:38:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: george76

“ He could face 15 to 45 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in January.”

He could but in actuality will get a verbal warning not to do it again and a large pay raise with that promotion.


8 posted on 10/05/2022 10:51:49 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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To: george76

What kind of FBI agent is named Babak?


9 posted on 10/05/2022 11:55:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism/communism but you need guns to shoot your way out.)
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To: george76

Hunter no


10 posted on 10/06/2022 3:21:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: george76

The Biden crime family did not need to pay off anyone. The Director is happy to scuttle any and all thoughts about investigating the Big Man. Demented Joe thinks he is sane, sad.


11 posted on 10/06/2022 5:40:05 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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To: kelly4c

“Reset” anyone?


12 posted on 10/06/2022 5:41:36 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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To: george76

I’d rather the FBI be kicked out of Florida and any other state that wants them out. If you watch the TV shows about FBI in the big cities...it basically shows them overtaking all the crime investigations. This is for our local and state LE to handle, not the FBI and not the feds. The FBI has no real business within the states. And if they do go into a state, I think they should have to inform the state heads of their purpose and who sent them.


13 posted on 10/06/2022 6:18:56 AM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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To: george76

Former CA agent helped a man tied to organized crime.

Hell that covers 90% of D.C. only the selected get charged.


14 posted on 10/06/2022 8:31:40 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: kelly4c

Why wouldn’t they?


15 posted on 10/07/2022 1:38:31 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: kelly4c

Uranium.


16 posted on 10/07/2022 1:39:26 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: george76; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; Fedora
Guess who else was working with the FBI's San Francisco office?

FBI Team Involved in Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Identified NTD News ^ | October 7, 2022 | Zachary Stieber Posted on 10/7/2022, 1:55:02 PM by Red Badger The FBI team that was in communication with Facebook before the social media company censored the original Hunter Biden laptop story has been identified, according to a new court filing. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, identified the team as the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), according to an updated complaint entered late on Oct. 6.... ...“Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story,” the updated complaint states.

17 posted on 10/07/2022 1:47:38 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Thanks. I’ll note that the Soviet embassy in San Francisco was an espionage center for infiltrating the California Democratic Party during the Cold War. I assume the Chicoms replicated that tactic.

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https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/Elvis%20Chan

Elvis Chan is an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) assigned to FBI San Francisco and manages the field office’s Cyber Branch, which is responsible for cyber investigations, digital forensics, technical operations, and private sector engagement. With over 16 years in the FBI, he is a decorated agent recognized in the Intelligence Community as an election cybersecurity and cyberterrorism expert. Prior to the FBI, he was a process engineer in the semiconductor industry for 12 years. He holds two U.S. patents and speaks at many technical and law enforcement symposiums. Chan graduated from the University of Washington with bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry, and from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master’s degree in homeland security studies.


18 posted on 10/07/2022 1:54:54 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: piasa

Thanks. I’ll note that the Soviet embassy in San Francisco was an espionage center for infiltrating the California Democratic Party during the Cold War. I assume the Chicoms replicated that tactic.

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https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/Elvis%20Chan

Elvis Chan is an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) assigned to FBI San Francisco and manages the field office’s Cyber Branch, which is responsible for cyber investigations, digital forensics, technical operations, and private sector engagement. With over 16 years in the FBI, he is a decorated agent recognized in the Intelligence Community as an election cybersecurity and cyberterrorism expert. Prior to the FBI, he was a process engineer in the semiconductor industry for 12 years. He holds two U.S. patents and speaks at many technical and law enforcement symposiums. Chan graduated from the University of Washington with bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry, and from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master’s degree in homeland security studies.


19 posted on 10/07/2022 1:54:54 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Don’t know if the double post is me or FR lol.


20 posted on 10/07/2022 1:55:21 PM PDT by Fedora
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