Ex-EPA Official Who Faked CIA Jobs Gets 32-Month Sentence
A former high-ranking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official who skipped years of work by faking assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency was sentenced to 32 months in prison for stealing government property.
John Beale, 65, collected paychecks from about 2000 through this year despite absences from work totaling about 2 1/2 years that he explained by falsely claiming he was working for the CIA.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle sentenced Beale today in Washington, calling his actions “unbelievably egregious” and “blatantly fraudulent.”
Beale’s crime “really is a stain on the entire federal workforce,” Huvelle said. She declined to fine him, saying “he is paying a hefty amount in every which way.” Beale has paid back $886,186 and agreed to forfeit about $507,000 more.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-18/ex-epa-official-who-faked-cia-jobs-gets-32-month-sentence.html
Beale created a fake CIA persona, writing weekly entries in his electronic calendar titled “DO oversight” that indicated days he purportedly worked at the spy agency’s directorate of operations, according to sentencing memos by his lawyer and prosecutors.
He told colleagues and managers he was working for “Langley,” the northern Virginia city where CIA headquarters is located.
As part of his deception, Beale told an EPA manager in June 2011 that his work for the spy agency would require him to be out of the office for extended periods.
He didn’t come to work at the EPA for the next 18 months while continuing to draw a paycheck and celebrating his purported retirement from the environment agency with a dinner cruise on the Potomac River in September 2011.
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