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OIG News Release: Former EPA official sentenced to 32 months in prison for defrauding government under ‘CIA agent’ guise

WASHINGTON – John C. Beale, a former employee of the EPA, today was sentenced to 32 months in prison following a plea agreement in which he admitted perpetrating multiple frauds under the bogus guise of performing undercover work as a CIA agent.

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OIG News Release (PDF)(2 pp, 41 K)