Personal Dilemma Paper

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but since they ide all this information it became a personal dilemma and lead to lie after lie. If they had disclosed their connections with the club, the complaint said, their top-secret security clearances would “most likely have been denied,” preventing them from continuing to work for the D.E.A. Employment disclosures are required, prosecutors said, to ensure that government employees with access to sensitive information are not vulnerable to blackmail or pressure. When operating that type of business you are making yourself susceptible to many illegal activities.

Conclusion

The outcome of this situation is the defense has said the men’s ownership interests in the club, the Twins plus Go-Go Lounge, were an open secret. But prosecutors in the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a court filing on Tuesday that the video and other testimony would help show the jury why the defendants had reason to conceal their roles in the club. “Put simply, the outside business in which Polos and Glover chose to be involved was not a benign enterprise that might have been looked upon favorably” by top government officials, the prosecutors, Martin S. Bell and Andrew D. Goldstein, wrote. “Rather, as Polos and Glover knew, significant illegal activity took place at the club that if discovered could have led to serious adverse consequences for the defendants,” like losing their security clearances or even their jobs, the prosecutors added. Mr. Polos has retired from the D.E.A., and Mr. Glover was placed on an indefinite suspension, the agency has said. The D.E.A. had no comment on Tuesday, nor did Mr. Bharara’s office. Mr. Polos’s lawyer, Marc L. Mukasey, said, “With all the evil going on in the world, it is disheartening that the government has chosen to prosecute a D.E.A. agent who risked his life for public safety on a daily basis, all because of its disapproval of an investment he made outside of his work at D.E.A.” Mr. Glover’s lawyer, Cathy Fleming, declined to comment. This is a case that is not so widely unimaginable. I can see a lot of law enforcement agents not too sure what to do in this situation. It just goes to show that everything done in private will eventually be brought to light.

References

N.Y. / Region

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By BENJAMIN WEISERAPRIL 12, 2016

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Trial Begins for Ex-D.E.A. Employees Who Owned Strip Club

By COLIN MOYNIHANMAY 31, 2016

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2 D.E.A. Workers Are Accused of Secretly Running Strip Club

By BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUMMAY