Feds: No Evidence of 'Wild' Claims by Skinhead Informant Who Slept With FBI Agent
The FBI found no evidence that a Phoenix FBI informant who slept with his agent handler committed the massive security breach he described after his arrest in California earlier this year, court documents show.
Phoenix New Times covered the story of informant Samuel Mattia and local FBI agent Mikaila Hughes in an April 30 article, relating from explosive court files how Hughes destroyed her marriage, shot down her career, put family members in danger, and helped cause the firing of Goodyear's police chief last year because of her affair with a violent, skinhead gang member who has spent much of his life in prison.
Mattia is now fighting a federal charge of cyberstalking for allegedly threatening to email revenge-porn photos if she stopped seeing him. He later sent the photographs to the FBI and Hughes' husband, Justin, a Goodyear deputy police chief. (Court documents refer to the Hugheses only as M.H. and J.H.)
One intriguing and troubling aspect of the tale was how Mattia reportedly told the FBI after his arrest in February — on an unrelated domestic-violence charge — that Hughes had given him access to weapons and restricted data.
Read more: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/goodyear-police-informant-fbi-agent-affair-samuel-mattia-mikaila-hughes-11515310
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but the defendant here is a professional "liar for hire." It would take a lot of serious corroboration of any of his claims before I'd be willing to run very far with them.
meanwhile -- any investigations or cases that he has played even the most minor role in .... ---
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