Ex-CIA agent gets prison for taking credit cards

Source: Washington Examiner

Ex-CIA agent gets prison for taking credit cards

A former CIA agent has been sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay back the $107,000 he charged on credit cards he stole from the agency.

Steven J. Levan spent 16 years working his way up from field agent to instructor, a position that permitted him access to secure vaults where the credit cards he stole were kept, court documents filed in Alexandria’s federal court said.

His career is now over, and he’ll spend two years on supervised release after serving the sentence handed down Thursday. On top of the $107,000, Levan also has been ordered to pay back $8,244 to a Residence Inn in Vienna.

Levan started living in Northern Virginia hotels after his marriage ended in divorce, documents said. Among the charges on the stolen credit cards was $7,446 for a hotel in McLean.

According to documents filed by Levan’s attorney, Geremy C. Kamens, Levan “experienced traumatic events that contributed to his” stealing the credit cards. Kamens did not describe the trauma, but submitted the details as part of a classified report.

“The purchases of extravagant personal items and hotel charges made on the stolen credit cards reflect a profound lack of insight,” Kamens wrote. “ was unable to appreciate the enormous and destructive consequences that would surely result from his theft of credit cards.”

Kamens did write that the lengthy time Levan spent oversees as a CIA agent “undoubtedly contributed to the estrangement that now exists between Mr. Levan and his wife.”

Kamens argued that Levan should spend six months in prison — six months less than the minimum prosecutors wanted — because he did not abuse his authority when he stole the credit cards.

But according to a sworn statement by a CIA inspector general, Levan had access to the cards only because of his security clearance. Levan was among only 40 people who had access to a “restricted vault” in an undisclosed CIA building.

He stole two credit cards from the vault on May 13, 2008, the inspector wrote. According to Kamens’ documents, the cards were taken off a secretary’s desk.

Since his January arrest, Levan has worked with the CIA to help them prevent others from committing crimes similar to his in the future, Kamens wrote.

Levan pleaded guilty to the charges Feb. 5.

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A lot of details missing and skewed in the report - as usual.

The credit cards used for 'a mistress' are numerous hookers around the world, some who are 'recruited' as in FORCED to blackmail, Sextort public officials. The hookers are many times FORCED to abet the CIA PIMPS - under threats of endless retaliation, Life in prison, death by hanging, family attacked, etc...It's B-R-U-T-A-L, very serious, torturous, treasonous.

American CIA GHETTO PIMPS and GANG RAPISTS is what it amounts too.
We need a U. S. Dept. of Pimps since they've become so prevalent now in running the U.S. congress, media, brothels,etc... via Sextortions. No wonder we're called "The Great Satan".

Now a mere 2 of them are in prison, Foggo & Levan, with their personal Jesus.

Many more: WASHINGTON — As a novice CIA case officer in the Middle East, Andrew Warren quickly learned the value of sex in recruiting spies. Colleagues say that he made an early habit of taking informants to strip clubs, and that he later began arranging out-of-town visits to brothels for his best recruits. Often Warren would travel with them, according to two colleagues who worked with him for years.
His methods earned him promotions and notoriety over a lengthy career, until Warren, 41, became ensnared in a sex scandal. Two Algerian women have accused the Virginia native of drugging and sexually assaulting them, and, in one instance, videotaping the encounter.

xxxMadMadam
http://www.defraudingamerica.com/robin_head.html

...how he rose to the number three position in the clandestine service.

Sexpionage should get more coverage.