According to the Associated Press, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent called the “White Devil” by drug dealers was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison on Thursday for stealing money from suspects, falsifying government records, and giving false testimony during a federal trial.
U.S. District Judge Jane Trichy Milazzo said that the long-term agent Chad A. Scott caused “far-reaching” damage to the “administration of justice.”
Federal prosecutor Timothy Duree told the first jury to find Scott guilty: “He weakened law enforcement and shamed the entire judicial process. He vowed to uphold the law, but he did. For selfish purposes violated the law.”
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The verdict ended a five-year case that shook the Drug Enforcement Administration and resulted in the conviction of three other members of the New Orleans-based Federal Drug Task Force.
Prosecutors portrayed Scott as more dangerous than the most stubborn heroin dealer he held, saying that the Louisiana lawyer “broke every rule in the book” in order to enforce his “own justice.” They had asked Milazzo to sentence Scott to nearly 20 years in prison.
The 53-year-old Scott was found guilty in consecutive trials on a series of corruption charges. These allegations stem from an extensive federal investigation into allegations of misconduct for most of Scott’s 17-year career, even as he made headlines between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Scott told Milazzo that he was “ashamed of being here” and added that he had long been “convicted in the media and public opinion.” But he tried to emphasize his contribution to law enforcement and the DEA mission, and he said he really believed in them. He told the judge that he had been the target of a murder conspiracy twice-“This is an example of people removing me from a drug trafficking investigation.”
Scott’s remarks-the first time since his arrest in 2017-were made at an unusual sentencing hearing this week, which revealed that Scott was accused of committing but Details of crimes that have not been charged. The alleged victims include a Louisiana man who accused Scott of planting an ounce of marijuana on his truck in 2005, and a Houston man who said Scott used him twice in 1999. The medallion on the necklace worn at the time of his arrest whipped him in the mouth, but no charges were made. The chain was then confiscated and it took nearly a year to return it.
Scott was convicted in 2019 for orchestrated a false testimony against a Houston heroin and cocaine trafficker-the perjury tainted the drug dealer’s conviction and allowed him to walk freely.The same federal jury found Scott forged paperwork Ford F-150 pickup truck-a vehicle he instructed another drug dealer to buy so that the DEA can confiscate and give it to Scott.
Earlier this year, a separate federal jury found guilty of Scott and Rodney Jemal, a former member of his working group. Prosecutors described this as a long-term plan to steal money and money from suspects they arrested. property.
Two other former members of the working group, Johnny Dominger and Karl E. Newman, pleaded guilty and testified against Scott. Both of them are deputies of the Sheriff’s Office in the Diocese of Tangipahoa, and they have learned about DEA in detail.
In recent years, more and more Narcotics Enforcement Administration agents have been accused of abusing their powers, and Scott is one of them. Another senior agent, Jose Irizzary, pleaded guilty last year, pleading guilty to conspiracy with Colombian cartel money launderers, submitting false reports, and ordering DEA staff to transfer funds for secret assassinations to international accounts under his control.
Court records show that since 2015, at least a dozen Drug Enforcement Administration agents across the country have been charged with criminal charges ranging from wire fraud and bribery to selling guns to drug dealers. These include a long-time agent in Chicago who admitted to infiltrating the DEA on behalf of a drug dealer, and another accused of accepting a bribe of $250,000 to protect the Mafia.
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