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Ex-Federal Agent Pleads Guilty to Alleged Cover-Up 1/18/13
Associated Press
January 18, 2013
BROWNSVILLE - A former U.S. Homeland Security agent has pleaded
guilty in Brownsville to conspiring to fake investigative records.
Wayne Ball is a former special agent with the Department of Homeland
Security's inspector general's office in McAllen. He pleaded guilty in federal
court Thursday after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors that requires his
future cooperation.
Ball was charged Monday with signing and backdating falsified reports. He
and unidentified others were accused of conspiring, before an internal agency
review, to fake records to show investigative work had been done.
Ball was the first to be charged in the investigation that began in late
2011 after the internal review.
The Inspector General's Office investigates wrongdoing within the
department's agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs
and Border Protection.