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Feds charge ex-FBI agent in alleged bribery scheme
(CNN) — A bribery scheme has led to the arrests of a former FBI special agent in New York and two Connecticut men, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said.
Robert Lustyik, 50, was arrested Friday on an allegation that he and a childhood friend, Johannes Thaler, 49, solicited cash from a third man in exchange for documents and information to which Lustyik had access to because of his FBI job.
The third man was identified as Rizve Ahmed, 34, also known as “Caesar.” Ahmed is an acquaintance of Thaler, both of whom live in Connecticut.
According to the four-count criminal complaint, which was unsealed Friday, Lustyik was working for the FBI in its White Plains office in September 2011, when he became involved in the scheme, which continued until March 2012.
It alleges that Ahmed, a native of Bangladesh, was seeking confidential law enforcement information, including a confidential Suspicious Activity Report, about a prominent citizen of his country affiliated with a rival political party. The complaint identifies that person only as “Individual 1.”
“Ahmed sought, among other things, to obtain information about Individual 1, to locate Individual 1, and to harm Individual 1 and others associated with Individual 1,” the complaint says.
Ahmed paid at least $1,000 to the two other men for information that included a suspicious activity report, according to the complaint.
Citing text messages as evidence, it says that Lustyik and Thaler discussed pressuring Ahmed to fork over extra money for the information.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/justice/ex…?hpt=hp_t2
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-feds-charge-ex-fbi-agent-in-alleged-bribery-scheme
