FBI launches investigation into Border Patrol union after $500,000 goes missing: Report

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'We know the FBI is looking at it,' said National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd.

The FBI is reportedly investigating the disappearance of as much as $500,000 within the National Border Patrol Council, which represents around 20,000 Border Patrol agents.that an investigation was underway, with the focus on identifying who was responsible for taking the money found to be missing from the union's El Paso branch.the FBI's national press office said it could neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation, as per Department of Justice policy.

In the audio, Judd can reportedly be heard saying the union had determined that $352,389.31 had been"misappropriated." Meanwhile, he said,"there was another $150,035.65 that was not properly paid to the IRS in tax money. Somebody pocketed it, just up and walked away."Judd also reportedly told agents that he expected there to be indictments in the wake of the investigation. He also asserted that the U.S.

According to ProPublica, rumors had long been circulating since at least 2018 that the El Paso branch's coffers had been raided as part of an embezzlement scheme. The revelation only appeared to come to light after a change in management of the branch, with Robert Russell, its former head, stepping down in the spring of 2018.

 

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Trump bestie stealing money.

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