DEA Supervisor and Employee guilty after trial

Glen Glover, one of the D.E.A. agents convicted 

According to the feds," Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID POLOS, formerly an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), and GLEN GLOVER, a DEA Information Technology Specialist, were convicted of conspiracy and making false statements to the government in national security forms regarding, among other things, their employment at an adult entertainment establishment.  POLOS and GLOVER were convicted after a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Bharara said:  “David Polos and Glen Glover had important and sensitive law enforcement jobs that required honest answers to national security clearance forms.  But as a unanimous jury found today, Polos and Glover lied on those national security forms, concealing their secret jobs owning and operating an adult entertainment club.  Their actions were not just a betrayal of their oaths as DEA employees, but as the jury found, a violation of federal law.”

According to the allegations in the Complaint and evidence established at trial:

POLOS, who supervised the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Strike Force, and GLOVER, an expert in sensitive law enforcement techniques who assisted narco-trafficking investigations domestically and abroad, failed to disclose their employment at, and ownership interests in, an adult entertainment establishment (the “Club”) in Northern New Jersey in connection with a background check to determine their suitability as employees of a federal law enforcement agency with access to classified information.  POLOS also failed to disclose his relationship with a dancer at the Club in response to a question about his relationships with foreign nationals.  The national security forms POLOS and GLOVER submitted in connection with the background check required disclosure of outside employment in part due to concerns attendant to certain types of employment, including proximity to crime and persons involved in crime and the risk of employee blackmail.

GLOVER and POLOS submitted national security forms in August and September 2011, respectively, which stated, among other things, that they did not have employment other than their DEA jobs within the previous seven years, and that POLOS had not had any close, continuing contact with foreign nationals during that same period of time.  In fact, GLOVER was the part owner of, and POLOS had a convertible ownership interest in, the Club.  In addition, POLOS had, at the time he submitted his form, begun an intimate relationship with a foreign national from Brazil who worked as a dancer at the Club.  POLOS and GLOVER had been warned by others, including Club employees, that at times drug use, drug sales, and illicit sexual activity appeared to be taking place at and outside the Club, which also operated as an all-cash business and did not pay required taxes during its first year in operation. 

GLOVER and POLOS both worked regular managerial shifts at the Club in the months prior to and following their submission of the national security forms.  They also hired, fired, and paid bartenders, dancers, and bouncers; supervised the Club’s renovation, advertised the Club in local periodicals; manned a back office available only to employees; remotely monitored video camera feed from the Club when not present; and generally tended to various Club-related matters.  GLOVER and POLOS at times attended to Club matters during DEA work hours. 

Had POLOS and GLOVER truthfully disclosed their employment at the Club, their ownership and involvement in the affairs of the Club would have been investigated as part of their background checks, and the security clearances that they were required to maintain as federal law enforcement employees likely would have been denied."

Why did this story make the news? Because it is embarrassing to the government. It is also a warning to other government employees not to cheat the system. I don't understand the defendant's lawyer telling the world that it was an open secret. He basically buried his clients. These type of bars are all cash establishments. The government can get any of those companies on taxes. 

Now that they took the government to trial and lost, they may get hammered at sentencing.

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