The Metro article incorrectly said that former FBI official Carl L. Spicocchi was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with four years suspended. An Arlington County Circuit Court judge sentenced Spicocchi to 13 years and suspended seven of them.
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Ex-FBI Official Gets Six Years
Carl Spicocch offered "my sincere apologies."
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"He's a good man who did a very bad thing," Abbenante said.
But Bergman said that Spicocchi confessed only after he realized that police had enough evidence to convict him, and that he had asked the police officer to let him go, as a favor, "cop to cop."
Spicocchi's former FBI colleagues declined to comment at the sentencing, but more than a dozen sent letters to the judge telling him that they believed this act was an aberration in an otherwise upstanding life.
"Carl was not only a premier law enforcement agent but a fine and conscientious gentleman," wrote Lou J. Ronca, a supervisory special agent with the FBI.
Spicocchi resigned from the FBI, giving up the right to any pension. He cried at the hearing, saying he was sorry for what he had done to the victim and to his family.
"I offer my sincere apologies," he said, giving no further explanation for his actions.
Spicocchi's wife, who attended yesterday's hearing, wiped away tears as she discussed the verdict with Abbenante. She declined to comment.
At the end of the hearing, the man who had spent his life pursuing criminals was led away to a jail cell in a blue jumpsuit.
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