FBI: Court Clerk Sold Secret Info To L.A. Hoodlums

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/federal-court-clerk-arrested-578451

The Smoking Gun
August 16, 2012

AUGUST 16 -- In a shocking security breach, a federal court clerk in Los 
Angeles has been charged with selling information from sealed court 
documents detailing upcoming arrests and law enforcement raids targeting 
affiliates of an organized crime syndicate.

Investigators discovered the alleged scheme earlier this year after a 
leader of the Armenian Power gang began cooperating with federal agents 
and prosecutors, according to an affidavit sworn by FBI Agent Corrie Lyle.

A subsequent investigation identified Nune Gevorkyan, the U.S. District 
Court employee, as the source of the confidential information, and found 
that the woman?s husband, a convicted felon, passed the information on to 
L.A. crime figures. Gevorkyan, 35, and Oganes Koshkaryan were named this 
week in a felony criminal complaint charging them with conspiracy to 
obstruct justice.

The unnamed Armenian Power turncoat -- a convicted felon whose rap sheet 
includes numerous violent crime convictions -- was one of 90 gang members 
and associates indicted last year on a variety of charges, including 
racketeering, extortion, kidnapping, and narcotics distribution.

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