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    Los Angeles Times
    August 16, 2012 Thursday
    Home Edition

    CALIFORNIA;
    Court leaks are alleged

    by Andrew Blankstein


    A federal court employee in Los Angeles has been charged with leaking
    confidential court files, the FBI said Wednesday.

    Nune Gevorkyan, 35, was accused of accessing sealed court documents
    and giving the information to defendants before they were arrested,
    officials said. Gevorkyan and her husband, Oganes Koshkaryan, were
    arrested Tuesday. They are charged with conspiring to obstruct
    justice.

    Federal authorities said they believe Gevorkyan looked at sealed
    indictments before raids across Southern California in February 2011
    that led to the arrests of more than 70 people associated with the
    Armenian Power gang. Most of the charges filed in those cases dealt
    with white-collar crimes.

    One of the defendants, who is seeking a reduced sentence, told FBI
    agents that information about the takedown was known to some of those
    arrested.

    "The cooperating defendant said that, as a result of this information,
    he/she fled his/her home the night before the arrests," according to
    court documents.

    Officials said an undercover agent "approached Koshkaryan about
    getting leaked information."

    "Following this conversation, on two separate occasions, the
    undercover provided Koshkaryan with the names of individuals who were
    actual defendants in a criminal case filed under seal in federal
    court. On both occasions, Koshkaryan then delivered to the undercover
    confidential information that had been obtained from the sealed court
    records," according to a statement by the FBI. Electronic records
    showed Gevorkyan accessed the sealed records shortly after Koshkaryan
    was given the names, the FBI added.

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