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Pennsylvania: Former BOP Warden Pleads Guilty to Cover-up
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2013, page 21
Troy Levi, the former warden of Federal Detention Center (FDC) Philadelphia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 13, 2011. Levi, 49, was charged with multiple counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making false statements to federal officials. According to the indictment, he attempted to conceal ...
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