Travis Raymond Wilson, Structuring, California 2023

A former FBI special agent has been sentenced to two years of probation for structuring in California.

Travis Raymond Wilson, 38, of Huntington Beach, California, made illegal cash deposits into his bank account to avoid triggering Currency Transaction Reports (CTR), authorities said.

The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to file CTRs on any cash transaction exceeding $10,000. Wilson, however, structured his cash deposits to prevent CTRs from being filed on him.

Between January 2008 and February 2013, Wilson gambled at casinos in California, Nevada, Arizona, and West Virginia, leaving with more than $10,000 in cash. He then deposited the money into his bank account in amounts of $10,000 or less to avoid triggering CTRs.

Wilson’s actions allowed him to conceal his gambling activities from the FBI, where he was a special agent from 2004 to 2013. He was a supervisory special agent in the FBI’s Long Beach Resident Office of the Los Angeles Field Office until his resignation in December 2013.

According to court documents, Wilson structured more than $488,000 in cash into his bank account over this time period.

Wilson was sentenced by Judge Anthony W. Ishii in Fresno, California, on [no date specified]. The case was the product of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, the Office of Inspector General, and the Central California Financial Crimes Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney Grant B. Rabenn prosecuted the case.

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