A veteran DEA agent working out of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for internal agency secrets, prosecutors announced Friday.
launder their ill-gotten gains. Recio at one time supervised investigations that Irizarry worked on, according to the Associated Press.
Costanzo, like all DEA agents, had access to an internal computer database called the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System, or “NADDIS.” The system contains records and reports on individuals under investigation by the DEA, as well as those associated with the agency’s targets. The trafficker, who is identified in court filings as “DEA Target-5,” had been charged in an indictment that was still sealed at the time, and the feds say Costanzo told Recio that Target-5 would be “gone in two weeks.”
Recio sent Castanzo six names and a phone number, asking Costanzo to “run it,” the indictment states. Costanzo then queried NADDIS for the information Recio requested, and texted back what he found, according to the documents. On another occasion, an unnamed task force officer working out of the DEA offices queried NADDIS for two names that Recio sent Costanzo the day before, the indictment said.
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