Former FBI employee sentenced for receiving bribes, tax fraud
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official was sentenced to 39 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for receiving a bribe by a public official, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced Wednesday.
52-year-old James Heslep of Gainesville, Virginia was also sentenced to 36 months in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release for making and subscribing a false federal income tax return.
The sentences will run concurrently.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Heslep to forfeit $128,128 and pay $15,353 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
A Centennial Mountains gold exploration proposal that had been halted due to uncertainty about impacts to an imperiled native trout population is reemerging before the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.