Ex-DEA spokesman admits posing as covert CIA agent in $4 million fraud scheme

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2. Prosecutors ask to lock up wannabe CIA operative for continuing a fraud scheme

(CNN)A former Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman who posed as a covert CIA operative in an alleged fraud scheme has kept a similar operation going for two months after pleading guilty, federal prosecutors say.

Garrison Kenneth Courtney pleaded guilty in June to conning at least a dozen unidentified public officials and duping companies out of millions of dollars after convincing them he worked for the CIA as an undercover agent.

Prosecutors want his bail revoked as he awaits his sentencing, saying he's continued his fraudulent efforts.

"The government has received compelling evidence showing that even after his guilty plea, Courtney has persisted in a variation of his fraudulent scheme, by continuing to pose falsely as a government official within the United States intelligence community involved in a supposed classified program," prosecutors with the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in a request to the court Tuesday.

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