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A former chief of the FBI’s Boston office will make his first court appearance next month, when Kenneth W. Kaiser will answer to a misdemeanor conflict-of-interest charge accusing him of meddling with a federal investigation into the Peabody company he was hired by after retiring as a G-man in 2009. A Rule 11 hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 3 before U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV. At the hearing, ex-Special Agent in Charge Kaiser can plead not guilty, guilty or, with Saylor’s permission, “nolo contendere” — meaning he neither disputes nor admits to the charge, but can be punished the same as if he pleaded guilty. If convicted, Kaiser, 57, of Hopkinton, faces up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The 27-year veteran of the FBI has not been arrested and declined comment yesterday. The case, which became public Sept. 12, is being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General. Kaiser is accused of violating a federal ethics law that bans senior executives from professional contact with the agency they worked for up to one year after leaving that service. On the day he retired from the FBI, prosecutors said Kaiser was hired as a consultant by LocatePlus, an online investigative database, to handle an internal investigation into corporate wrongdoing by the company’s then-chief executives Jon Latorella and James Fields. Just “17 days after his retirement,” prosecutors said Kaiser had “numerous prohibited electronic, telephonic and in-person contacts with FBI employees” regarding the bureau’s own investigation into LocatePlus. Latorella pleaded guilty last year to securities fraud, while Fields was convicted by a jury. Both are serving five-year sentences. Kaiser is also accused of improper contacts with the FBI while working for a Gloucester company in 2009 that received a threatening letter in the mail, and for reaching out to his former FBI colleagues in what prosecutors said was “an attempt to generate sales” of LocatePlus products. Kaiser was Boston’s SAC from 2003 to 2006. He was assistant director of criminal investigations at FBI headquarters in Washington from 2007 until his retirement.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:41:12 +0000

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