Date: 12-11-2019

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Case Number: 1:19-cr-04542-JAP

Judge: Karen B. Molzen

Court: United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (Bernalillo County)

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Description: Albuquerque, NM - The United States of America charged Gregory Burris with making false statements.

A former civilian employee of the United States Air Force (USAF) pleaded guilty for making false statements in connection with a federal investigation into the employee’s theft of government funds.

Gregory Burris, 48, of Miesau, Germany, pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen B. Molzen of the District of New Mexico.

According to documents filed with the court and admissions made in connection with Burris’s plea, between approximately 2013 and 2016, Burris was employed by the USAF as a Resource Advisor and was assigned to a multinational electronic warfare training facility (Polygone) near Ramstein Air Base in Germany. In this position, Burris was responsible for, among other duties, generating and transmitting invoices and payment instructions to foreign militaries for their use of Polygone’s facilities.

Between early 2015 and early 2016, Burris generated and transmitted six invoices to foreign militaries for money owed to the U.S. government for expenses related to Polygone-sponsored training exercises. Burris directed these militaries to transmit payment of the invoices to Burris’s personal checking account at a German bank, held jointly with his wife, rather than the authorized Department of Defense (DOD) bank account. As a result of Burris’s instructions, foreign militaries unwittingly deposited approximately $144,953.41 into Burris’s personal bank account.

Federal investigators in Albuquerque, New Mexico, interviewed Burris on Aug. 29, 2018. During the interview, he falsely stated that after receiving the deposits from the foreign militaries in his personal bank account, he wire-transferred the funds from his personal bank account to the authorized DOD bank account by requesting and authorizing each transfer in person at his local bank branch in Germany. In fact, Burris used the entirety of these funds to pay for personal expenses.

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General investigated this case. Trial Attorney Erica O’Brien Waymack of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section is prosecuting the case.

Charge:

Making a false statement in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001.

Outcome: 12/10/2019 Judge update in case as to Gregory J Burris. District Judge James A. Parker added. (eh) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 1 INFORMATION as to Gregory J Burris (1) count(s) 1. (cmm) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 2 CONSENT TO PLEA BEFORE US MAGISTRATE JUDGE by Gregory J Burris. (cmm) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 3 WAIVER OF INDICTMENT by Gregory J Burris. (cmm) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 4 PLEA AGREEMENT as to Gregory J Burris.(cmm) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 5 NOTICE - Factual Basis for Plea by Gregory J Burris.(cmm) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 6 Clerk's Minutes for proceedings held before Magistrate Judge Karen B. Molzen: Initial Appearance and Plea Hearing as to Gregory J Burris held on 12/10/2019. (Recording Info: Liberty-Rio Grande) (eh) (Entered: 12/10/2019)
12/10/2019 7 ORDER Setting Conditions of Release by Magistrate Judge Karen B. Molzen (khs) (Entered: 12/10/2019)

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