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Report: Therapist Of Philandering FBI Agent Advised Him To Draw Up List Of Sexual Conquests
Justin Elliott | September 24, 2009, 10:27AM
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We told you yesterday about the FBI agent who resigned after superiors found his list of sexual conquests, including a key witness in the corruption probe of Congressman William Jefferson, and who now appears to be hyping the threat of Islamic terrorism professionally.
But what left us scratching our heads, and what a court filing didn't address, is why the exactly the agent, John Guandolo, would write and then keep a document listing affairs with female FBI agents and a witness in a high-profile corruption case.
It turns out Guandolo's therapist asked him to make the list as a writing exercise to "help him realize the damage the affairs had done to his marriage," reports Allen Lengel of ticklethewire.com, citing an anonymous source.
Not the type of list you'd want to leave lying around the office. But somehow, according to the court filing that details the episode, someone found the document and "provided [it] to his superiors." Guandolo's FBI career was over.
He hasn't responded to calls from TPMmuckraker seeking comment.
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 24, 2009 10:56 AM
Mr. Guandolo might want to consider filing the 2006, 2007 and 2008 990s for his charity, Destination Cure. The 2005 990 is the last one on file at the 990 Finder and Guidestar. It shows $175k in cash on hand at year end but no contributions. In previous years, Destination Cure made $50k grants to a neurological researcher at Yale U. which seem to be legit.
Just saying.
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 24, 2009 11:55 AM in reply to Mrs Panstreppon
Hmm...
In a November 2004 press release, Guandolo claimed Destination Cure raised more than $300k in October of that year. Yet the relevant 990 only shows contributions of $36k for the entire year.
The possibilities:
Some contributors failed to live up to their obligation,
Guandolo exaggerated how much money he raised or
Guandolo did not report all of the money he raised to the IRS.
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 24, 2009 12:02 PM in reply to Mrs Panstreppon
Not to belabor a point but Guandolo told the Washington Post that Destination Cure raised $300k.
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Campesino
September 24, 2009 12:17 PM
Who? Why should anyone care?
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Kuyleh
September 24, 2009 12:36 PM
I...Well, I guess that's noble. If that's really why he made the list. But it was still dumb as hell to leave it laying around.
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 24, 2009 12:39 PM
Why?
One, an FBI agent acted inappropriately during a major investigation.
Two, the FBI characterized Guandolo's request for $75,000 as a "solicitation" of a donation. Perhaps the request was an attempt at extortion, something Jefferson's lawyers would want to know. If it was, what does Mody have to hide?
Three, was Guandolo going to have the $75,000 washed back to him through a non-profit?
Four, keeping up multiple affairs can be an expensive proposition. I think someone ought to check into whatever other cases Guandolo handled to see if he had other opportunities to "solicit" money.
Five, Guandolo is pretty sloppy at best about filing 990s for his charity. Gets back to whether he had financial problems that affected his judgment on the job.
Six, if this guy isn't cut off at the knees, he will be showing up on television as a "terrorist expert" which he obviously is not. We've had enough troublemaking faux terrorist experts in the last decade to last us a lifetime.
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 24, 2009 1:03 PM in reply to Mrs Panstreppon
Let me add that Guandolo was hired by Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy to write a report that was critical of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s (FDLE) handling of a case involving Muslim girl seeking refuge from her family. Guandolo managed to turn the report into a indictment of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islam in general.
Maybe this was the organization Guandolo was "soliciting" for. Somebody ought to ask Gaffney whether he was going to kick back at least part of the $75k to Guandolo.
On a different note, it is interesting that the FBI found out in December 2008 that Guandolo had an affair with a witness that could compromise a case but apparently was unable to identify the compromised witness.
It wasn't until Mody approached the FBI in June 2009 and told them about her sexual encounters with Guandolo before the court was alerted about Guandolo's inappropriate relationship.
How many good-looking witnesses could Guandolo have compromised that the FBI couldn't figure out it was Mody until she told them six months later?
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DA in LA
September 24, 2009 1:49 PM
Odds are Gaffney showed it to someone or left it laying around. Either way, that's on his head and quite stupid.
No therapist in their right mind would allow that kind of information out. He or she would immediately lose their license. My wife is a therapist. They closely guard client information and many have been sued to get it even after patients die.
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 24, 2009 2:09 PM in reply to DA in LA
We don't know who found the list of lovers or where it was found. My guess is that Guandolo left it lying on his desk one night or in the office copy machine. Maybe he wanted to get caught.
I still want to know why the FBI couldn't figure out who the compromised witness was in December 2008.
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ohyeathatsright
September 24, 2009 1:56 PM
Or to "help him realize how many notches he has on his belt".
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ohyeathatsright
September 24, 2009 1:56 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
And where he might have picked up that pesky case of chlamydia.
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slb
September 24, 2009 3:27 PM
Not the type of list you'd want to leave lying around the office.
Probably not the sort of thing he'd have wanted to leave lying around the house, either...
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roufamatic
September 24, 2009 6:43 PM
I bet he wrote the list per his therapist's suggestion, didn't hide it well, and had it discovered by one of his FBI "conquests." And she just passed it along. I doubt the therapist released the list as that would be a career-killer.
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