On November 18, 2025, Lesley Pasquet, a former DEA Asset Forfeiture Specialist, was sentenced in the Southern District of Florida to 36 months of imprisonment, 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay a $200 special assessment. Pasquet previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the factual statement in support of the guilty plea, from in or about December 2023, to on or about February 22, 2024, Pasquet knowingly, and with intent to defraud, obtained personal identification information, including Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and driver license numbers issue to other persons (“unauthorized access devices”), from a public records database through his employment at the DEA and sold the information to co-conspirators, who used it to commit tax and unemployment insurance fraud. The investigation was conducted by the OIG’s Miami Office.
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