FBI

From FBI Agent's Affair List: 'Lori M. Sex While On The Job. Jeopardized Case'

Justin Elliott | September 28, 2009, 6:45PM

The FBI says it's reviewing why it didn't reveal to prosecutors in the corruption case of Congressman William Jefferson that an agent on the case had an affair with a key government informant, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.

And in a court filing unsealed today, first noted by the Times-Picayune, Jefferson prosecutors detail more about the FBI agent, John Guandolo, and the list of sexual conquests he wrote.

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Topics: FBI, John Guandolo, Lori Mody, William Jefferson

John Guandolo

Report: Therapist Of Philandering FBI Agent Advised Him To Draw Up List Of Sexual Conquests

Justin Elliott | September 24, 2009, 10:27AM

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.

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Topics: FBI, John Guandolo, Sex, William Jefferson

John Guandolo

The Strange Case Of The Philandering, Muslim-Threat-Hyping FBI Agent

Justin Elliott | September 23, 2009, 2:01PM

An FBI agent who worked on the corruption case of former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson resigned after superiors found a list he wrote of his sexual conquests with agents and a confidential source, according to court documents.

The same agent, John Guandolo, who is married and who unsuccessfully solicited a $75,000 donation for an anti-terrorism group from a wealthy witness in the Jefferson case with whom he was having an affair, resigned from the FBI and appears to have landed on his feet on the speaking circuit playing up the threat of Islamic terrorism.

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Topics: FBI, John Guandolo, Justice Department, Office of Professional Responsibility, Sex, William Jefferson

William Jefferson

Judge Denies Ex-Rep. Jefferson Request For New Trial

Justin Elliott | September 21, 2009, 3:15PM

Ex-Rep. William Jefferson of Lousiana, convicted in August of 11 counts of corruption after cash was found in bricks in his freezer, has lost his bid for a new trial, the AP reports.

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Topics: Eastern District of Virginia, T.S. Ellis III, William Jefferson