Gulshan Manko, Lying to Federal Agents, New Jersey 2021

State: New Jersey
Category: White Collar Crime
Source: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/middlesex-county-man-admits-lying-employment-application-dea" style="color:#cc0000;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">DOJ Press Release ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬â€

Gulshan Manko, a 37-year-old man from Woodbridge, New Jersey, admitted to lying about his educational background in his application for employment with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Manko, a resident of Middlesex County, New Jersey, pleaded guilty by videoconference before Chief U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging him with one count of making false statements to federal agents in Newark, New Jersey, on an unknown date.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Manko submitted an application, referred to as an SF-86 Form, for employment as a federal agent with the DEA. He submitted fictitious academic transcripts from two higher education institutions located in New Jersey and represented that he had graduated from these two academic institutions. Manko made these statements in his employment application knowing that they were false in an attempt to gain employment with the DEA.

The count of providing false statements to which Manko pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig credited special agents of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and special agents of the DEA with the investigation leading today’s guilty plea.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Mateo of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Opioid Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Unit in Newark.

Manko is scheduled to be sentenced on January 19, 2022.

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