DEA Agent Charged With Tax Evasion
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was indicted earlier this year on charges of bribery and fraud also faces tax evasion charges, authorities said Friday.
Emilio Calatayud, 34, an agent who worked for the Los Angeles field division, was charged by a federal grand jury with failing to report money he allegedly received for selling confidential law enforcement records to Triple Check Investigative Services, a private firm in San Dimas.
The amount of income he failed to report was unavailable Friday.
According to the indictment, Calatayud was paid $60 to $80 for every individual criminal history he downloaded from law enforcement computer files.
Calatayud, a 12-year veteran of the DEA, was charged with not reporting income he received from Triple Check from 1995 through 1997, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
One tax evasion charge for each of the three years will be added to the existing five counts of wire fraud, five counts of computer fraud and one count of bribery, authorities said.
Calatayud could face a maximum sentence of 74 years in federal prison and fines as high as $3.05 million, officials said.
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