FBI Agent Who Dated Actress is Charged With Illegally Accessing FBI Computer
By Allan Lengel
Ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — FBI agent Mark Rossini, whose name surfaced in New York gossip columns for dating actress Linda Fiorentino, has been charged with illegally accessing an FBI computer for personal use.
Rossini, who resigned Friday, was charged with five misdemeanor counts in a criminal Information filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington. In many instances, when a criminal Information is filed, the defendant ends up pleading guilty. Rossini had been based in Washington but later transferred to New York, where press reports had him dining with Fiorentino at Elaine’s, a well known uptown restaurant.
Del Quentin Wilber of The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Linda Fiorentino has ties to Anthony Pellicano, the controversial Los Angeles private investigator, who was convicted in May of using illegal wiretaps and rogue cops to dig up info for famous clients. The Post said that Pellicano’s attorneys in a court filing in March 2007 referenced an FBI report that raised questions about a certain FBI agent’s credibility. The lawyers said the prosecution should have turned over the report during discovery. Rossini was the source of that document, the Post reported, attributing that to “one law enforcement official.”
Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, declined to comment Tuesday night on the case but said a hearing was scheduled for next Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Focciola. Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Washington, declined comment. The court papers charge that Rossini on five different occasions in 2007 in Washington “exceeded his authorized access to a protected computer belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation”. Read Criminal Information Read 2007 Gossip Report on Rossini and Fiorentino (Radar) See YouTube Video of Rossini Speaking At Brooklyn Mosque
Posted: December 3rd, 2008 under FBI, News Story.
Tags: FBI, Linda Fiorentino, Mark Rossini
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