Former FBI agent found guilty of ties with Armenian mafia
A former FBI agent from the bureau's San Francisco office has been found guilty of accepting a bribe...
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A former FBI agent from the bureau's San Francisco office has been found guilty of accepting a bribe...
Print A former agent in the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday on charges he took at least $122,000 in bribes from an organized crime figure in return for help evading authorities. Felix Cisneros Jr., 46, used his access to highly restricted law-enforcement databases to provide inside information on investigations to the crime figure, who paid him off in 2015 and 2016, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Tuesday. Cisneros also tried to get one of the crime figure’s relatives admitted into the U.S. from Armenia, and he removed information about a German citize...
Homeland Security agent took bribes from organized crime, prosecutors charge Michael Finnegan, Matthew Ormseth © Provided by The LA Times Felix Cisneros Jr., who was arrested on bribery charges, was an agent working on narcotics, money laundering and human trafficking investigations at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Associated Press) A former agent in the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday on charges he took at least $122,000 in bribes from an organized crime figure in return for help evading authorities. Felix Cisneros Jr., 46, used his acces...