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DENVER (AP) -- An F-B-I agent has been indicted in Colorado on charges he falsely billed the agency for lodging expenses that had been paid by another Justice Department office.
Forty-year-old Douglas V. Brennan of Colorado Springs was ordered to appear in Denver federal court June second for his initial hearing on three counts of making false claims to the government.
F-B-I spokeswoman Monique Kelso says he has been placed on paid administrative leave.
The U-S attorney's office in Salt Lake City says Brennan was assigned to a nine-week federal trial in Denver in 2003, and his lodging was paid by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. It says he submitted to the F-B-I three requests for lodging-expense reimbursements totaling nearly seven thousand dollars.
Federal prosecutors in Utah were assigned the case to avoid a conflict of interest for prosecutors in Colorado.
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