A former FBI agent was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiracy, money laundering and accepting bribes from an Armenian mobster.
"Mr. Sargsyan was under the expectation that Mr. Broumand would take care of it. Could stop the investigations, stop any kind of criminal proceedings against him," said federal prosecutor Juan Rodriguez.
Instead, Sargsyan flipped, wore a wire and testified against Broumand. He told a jury that he paid the former FBI agent $10,000 a month in cash bribes."He has not spent a single day in jail, and this guy has been just a monumental walking serial liar and fraudster since arriving into the U.S.," Gruel said.
During the trial, Broumand maintained that Sargsyan was an "unofficial source" providing intel on Armenian mob boss Levon Termendzhyan, and what Broumand claimed were his possible ties to the terrorist group Isis in Turkey. Gruel says Broumand's FBI career working undercover with confidential informants led to a temporary blurring of the lines.
"When you think about it that he was living a life of international intrigue, so to speak, on behalf of the U.S., I guess it's not too far-fetched to think you might lose yourself along the way," Gruel said. "Good people sometimes do bad things."Copyright © 2023 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.
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