Arkadiy Zagaytov, a former FBI contractor, has admitted to facilitating payments from a private company to a senior Department of Energy official and lying about them to investigators.
In 2004 and 2005, at the request of the DoE official, Zagaytov prepared and submitted false invoices for up to $140,000 in “consulting” services never rendered to a private company, then once in possession of the funds he distributed cash to the government employee.
Zagaytov worked as an Oracle database administrator at the FBI Headquarters Information Technology Division from June 2010 to October 2011 and September 2012 to August 2014. He failed to disclose these payments when applying for the job’s top secret clearance and denied them when interviewed by FBI agents on July 31, 2014.
Following an investigation by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the Energy Department’s Office of Inspector General, Zagaytov pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate District Judge Robin M. Meriweather of the District of Columbia. His sentencing has yet to be scheduled.
Former FBI contractor pleads guilty to lying during investigation
