From: Subject: Garner Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:39:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C9FA2F.DC5673F0" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C9FA2F.DC5673F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.justice.gov/usao/waw/press/2009/jun/garner.html Garner


UNITED STATES=20 ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Western=20 District of Washington
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June 29, = 2009

FAA EMPLOYEE=92S = RELATIVE=20 CONVICTED IN SCHEME TO STEAL EXCESS GOVERNMENT = PROPERTY
Relative=20 Profited from Scheme to Illegally take Government Boats, Plane, = Cars and=20 Electronics

BRADLEY A. GARNER, 51, a Canadian citizen who resides in Palm = Desert,=20 California, was convicted of Wire Fraud and Theft of Honest = Services,=20 Mail Fraud, and Unlawful Monetary Transaction today in U.S. = District=20 Court in Tacoma, Washington. GARNER was convicted of public = corruption=20 charges involving a scheme to misappropriate expensive federal = property=20 such as boats, planes, vehicles and computers. The jury = deliberated=20 about ten hours, following a three week jury trial. U.S. = District Judge=20 Benjamin Settle ordered Garner detained pending sentencing = scheduled for=20 September 28, 2009. GARNER=92s co-conspirator, his half-brother = Steven B.=20 Smith, a former employee of the Federal Aviation Administration = is=20 scheduled for trial on October 6, 2009.

According to records filed in the case and testimony at = trial, Steven=20 Smith misused a government computer to place holds on items = meant for=20 transfer to other federal agencies. Smith would place a claim on = the=20 property as a representative of the FAA. However, Smith was not=20 authorized to place any holds for the FAA. GARNER then traveled = the=20 country picking up claimed goods worth thousands of dollars. = Some of the=20 items claimed include two 27' Boston Whaler boats, a Cessna = airplane, a=20 50 foot yacht used in the Bahamas by the Drug Enforcement=20 Administration, and a sailing yawl that had been used by the = Naval ROTC=20 program at the University of Washington. Although the scheme was = international in scope, the counts of conviction relate to = specific=20 things GARNER did in Western Washington as he claimed the = various items.=20 For example, the Mail Fraud conviction relates to an insurance = claim=20 GARNER filed on the Cessna airplane falsely indicating he had = purchased=20 the plane for one dollar. Prosecutors pointed out that GARNER, = who ran a=20 limousine service, never obtained title showing the items were = legally=20 purchased and never registered the cars, boats or plane with = licensing=20 authorities. GARNER stored the items at his home or airport = hangar. Some=20 of the items, such as the sailboat claimed from the Navy ROTC, = were=20 smuggled to Canada.

GARNER faces up to twenty years in prison for Mail Fraud and = Wire=20 Fraud.

GARNER and Smith were first arrested in Southern California = in=20 November 2008. They were indicted by the grand jury in February=20 2009.

The case was investigated by the General Services = Administration=20 Office of the Inspector General (GSA-OIG), the Internal Revenue = Service=20 Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), the Department of = Transportation Office=20 of Inspector General (DOT-OIG), Naval Criminal Investigation = Service=20 (NCIS), Army Criminal Investigation Division (Army CID) Defense = Criminal=20 Investigation Service (DCIS) and the FBI. The case was = prosecuted by=20 Assistant United States Attorneys David Reese Jennings and Brian = Werner.

For additional information please contact Emily Langlie, = Public=20 Affairs Officer for the United States Attorney=92s Office, at = (206)=20 553-4110 or Emily.Langlie@USDOJ.Gov.=20

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