Felix Cisneros Jr., a former agent in the Dept. of Homeland Security, was convicted of bribery for his involvement with an Armenian crime figure.
In 2015, Felix Cisneros Jr. was a decorated federal agent. Within the field office where he worked in San Bernardino, he was known for working big narcotics and money laundering cases, often undercover.
Over the objections of his lawyer, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner ordered Cisneros to be taken into custody immediately, rather than allow him to surrender when he is sentenced Aug. 1. Cisneros took off his tie, belt and jacket, handed them to his attorney and was led away, hands shackled to his waist.
Around 2008, Cisneros met Levon Termendzhyan, an Armenian immigrant who had amassed a fortune with a collection of gas stations, fuel docks and truck stops. Sargsyan told jurors how he used John Saro Balian, a narcotics detective from the Glendale Police Department, to relay messages to Cisneros. His first request: Run the name of an associate, a German man, through a federal immigration database to see why he was being turned down for a visa.
Soon after, Sargsyan testified, he learned from Balian that Cisneros was in debt and in danger of losing his home. The Glendale detective, he said, relayed an offer from the agent: If Sargsyan paid down his credit cards, Cisneros would continue to use his access to government databases to help him. Morse pointed to a text message that Cisneros sent to Sargsyan in 2016: “God is looking over you,” the agent wrote, “and so are the feds.”When an FBI agent was charged with taking bribes, a question loomed: Who was the lawyer who told investigators he gave the agent cash for information?
Sargsyan worried he too was under investigation. “Immediately, I reached out to my law enforcement people that I had around me,” he testified, describing how he contacted Cisneros and Babak Broumand, then an FBI agent stationed in San Francisco. Broumand has since been charged with taking bribes from Sargsyan; he has pleaded not guilty.
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