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Sep. 29, 2022

FBI agent denies being bribed, says Ducati bike was ‘surprise’

FBI agent accused of taking monthly bribes to search DOJ database for mentions of false attorney testifies that he was just gathering information as part of his work.

A former FBI agent being tried on six bribery charges for allegedly accepting thousands of dollars in monthly payments from a phony attorney to use the agency’s case files for unauthorized purposes told a federal jury that he considered the attorney to be a useful source in his line of work.

“From what I understood about Edgar Sargsyan, I knew that he had a lot of contacts in the [Armenian] community,” now-retired agent Babak Broumand test...

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