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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
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v. ) Criminal No. TDC-18-0012
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MARK T. LAMBERT, )
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Defendant. )
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Defendant Mark Lambert, by and through undersigned counsel, respectfully moves this
Court pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 16 as well as Brady v Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its
progeny, to schedule an oral hearing on this motion and issue an Order compelling the
government to produce certain Rule 16 and Brady evidence, as set forth in further detail in the
Respectfully Submitted,
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
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v. ) Criminal No. TDC-18-0012
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MARK T. LAMBERT, )
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Defendant. )
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Defendant Mark Lambert, by and through undersigned counsel, respectfully moves this
Court pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 16 as well as Brady v Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its
progeny, to schedule an oral hearing on this motion and issue an Order compelling the
government to produce certain Rule 16 and Brady evidence, as further set forth herein.
Principally, Mr. Lambert seeks documents, including video and audio recordings, related to (1)
alleged co-conspirator Rodney Fisk, the initial co-conspirator with Vadim Mikerin, who
subsequently is alleged to have recruited Mr. Lambert into the conspiracy and who has just been
identified by the prosecution as a secret FBI operative, and (2) alleged co-conspirator Mr.
Mikerin, the purported recipient of illicit payments. Additionally, Mr. Lambert seeks the
underlying FBI 302s, interview memoranda, interview notes or other original source materials
reflecting statements of any witnesses disclosed to Mr. Lambert, including those identified as
having “Potentially Brady, Giglio or Impeachment” evidence, as well as the interview notes
The government has refused to provide all of these specifically requested materials.
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BACKGROUND
This case initially stems from a joint Department of Energy Office of Inspector General
and FBI counterintelligence investigation dating back, at least, to 2009. See Criminal Complaint
¶ 13, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, 8:14-cr-00529-TDC (ECF No. 8) (attached as Exhibit 1);
Transcript of Motion Proceedings Before the Honorable Theodore D. Chuang United States
District Judge at 5, ¶¶ 16-21, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, 8:14-cr-00529-TDC (ECF No. 58)
William Douglas Campbell et. al. v. Vadim Mikerin et. al., 1:16-cv-01888-MJG (ECF No. 1)
(attached as Exhibit 3). Over the past decade, this investigation has seen the government
businessman living in the United States, Mr. Mikerin, into an illicit payment scheme, and then to
leverage his precarious legal position to compel him to provide intelligence about certain high-
ranking Russian government officials. See, e.g., Motion to Recall Arrest Warrant Against Vadim
Mikerin, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, 8:14-cr-00529-TDC (ECF No. 4) (attached as Exhibit
4).
With regard to Mr. Lambert’s case, the government generally alleges that Mr. Mikerin
solicited and accepted illicit payments from Transport Logistics International, Inc. (“TLI”) in
exchange for assistance in obtaining contracts for the transportation of enriched uranium. See
Superseding Indictment, United States v. Mark T. Lambert, 8:18-cr-00012-TDC (ECF No. 58)
(attached as Exhibit 5). Remarkably, Mr. Lambert has now been told for the first time, based on
a brand new government disclosure to Mr. Lambert’s counsel at the very end of March 2019, that
Mr. Fisk, the president of TLI who, along with Mr. Mikerin, allegedly initiated the unlawful
payment scheme, at that very time was a secret government operative working for, and being
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paid by, the FBI. See March 29, 2019 Letter from the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Exhibit 6). And all of this was apparently unfolding while a second secret government operative
and paid FBI source, William Campbell, was directly involved in making purportedly illegal
payments to Mr. Mikerin at the direction of the FBI, and was reporting back to the FBI about the
I. Alleged Conspiracy
Mr. Mikerin moved to the United States to serve as the president of Tenam Corporation, a
Maryland company. According to the government, Mr. Mikerin initially conspired with Mr.
Fisk, the owner and president of TLI, to promote an illicit payment scheme. Years later, upon
Mr. Fisk’s subsequent departure from TLI in 2009, the illegal payment scheme with Mr. Mikerin
is alleged to have continued with Daren Condrey, TLI’s co-president, defendant Mr. Lambert,
TLI’s other co-president, and third-party consultant Boris Rubizhevsky. See id. at 4, ¶ 12; Plea
Agreement of Vadim Mikerin, Attachment A at 10-13, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, 8:14-cr-
00529-TDC (ECF Nos. 103 and 103-1) (attached as Exhibit 7); Plea Agreement of Daren
Nos. 22 and 22-1) (attached as Exhibit 8); Plea Agreement of Boris Rubizhevsky, Attachment A
at 9-10, United States v. Boris Rubizhevsky, 8:15-cr-00332-TDC (ECF Nos. 26 and 26-1)
(attached as Exhibit 9). In particular, the government alleges that it was Mr. Fisk who eventually
recruited Mr. Condrey and Mr. Lambert into the payment scheme, which allegedly continued
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alleged conspiracy was Mr. Campbell, an FBI confidential informant who, while making
allegedly illegal payments to Mr. Mikerin, was secretly working for the FBI and reporting back
about Mr. Mikerin’s illicit payment schemes. See id.; Mikerin Criminal Complaint at 4, ¶ 13.
And yet, two weeks ago, the government informed Mr. Lambert that Mr. Fisk too was a secret
FBI operative during the very time Mr. Fisk is now alleged to have been conspiring with Mr.
Lambert, among others. See March 29, 2019 DOJ Letter at 3. Of course, like Mr. Campbell, Mr.
Fisk was presumably reporting back to his FBI handlers while allegedly making illegal payments
to Mr. Mikerin.
It also appears that Mr. Fisk’s status as an FBI informant has been known to the
prosecution since at least April 2015 (if not years earlier), but the prosecution chose not to
disclose Mr. Fisk’s FBI role to the defense until two weeks ago, after Mr. Lambert’s unopposed
request for a continuance of the original trial date, and has declined to identify the FBI agents
with knowledge of, or documents or recordings reflecting, any of Mr. Fisk’s activities on behalf
of the FBI. See id.; Mikerin Motion Transcript at 32, ¶¶ 9-14; April 1, 2019 Email from the U.S.
II. Charges
In the summer of 2014, the government filed an 11-page affidavit of Energy Department
OIG Special Agent David Gadren in support of an application for a criminal complaint charging
Mr. Mikerin with one count of Interference with Commerce by Threats or Violence under 18
U.S.C. section 1951, i.e., extortion. See Mikerin Criminal Complaint. About a year later, Mr.
Mikerin pled guilty before this Court to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
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In the fall of 2014, the government also filed a 21-page affidavit of Energy Department
Special Agent Gadren in support of a request for a criminal complaint charging Mr. Lambert,
Mr. Condrey, Carol Condrey (Mr. Condrey’s wife) and Mr. Rubizhevsky with one count of
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, and seeking their arrest. See
Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint, United States v. Daren Condrey, Carol Condrey,
Mark Lambert and Boris Rubizhevsky, 8:15-cr-00032-TDC (ECF No. 4) (attached as Exhibit 11);
(attached as Exhibit 12); Criminal Complaint, United States v. Daren Condrey, 8:15-cr-00336-
TDC (ECF No. 1) (attached as Exhibit 13); Criminal Complaint, United States v. Boris
Rubizhevsky, 8:15-cr-00332-TDC (ECF No. 1) (attached as Exhibit 13). In a rarely seen turn of
events, however, Magistrate Judge Charles Day exercised his informed independent judgment
and refused to grant the government’s request for a criminal complaint and arrest warrant against
Mr. Lambert, as he found that no probable cause was established to believe that Mr. Lambert had
engaged in the charged crime. Armed with the remaining arrest warrants, FBI agents arrested
Mr. and Mrs. Condrey. As part of the FBI raid, government agents also searched TLI’s offices
in Fulton, Maryland, where they obtained assistance from, and interrogated, Mr. Lambert. Intent
on cooperating with the FBI, Mr. Lambert responded to the agent’s questioning by providing
statements which were later summarized in an FBI 302. Mr. Lambert also consented to the
government’s search of TLI email accounts, and directed the agents to Mr. Condrey’s files. See
February 2, 2018 Letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, at 6 (attached as Exhibit 14).
In June 2015, following months of negotiations between the government and counsel for
both Mr. Condrey and Mrs. Condrey –and after the government had dropped all charges against
his wife– Mr. Condrey pled guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Violate the Foreign Corrupt
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Practices Act (“FCPA”) and to Commit Wire Fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 371. See Daren Condrey
Plea Agreement; Order Granting Continuance of Daren Condrey’s Preliminary Hearing, United
States v. Daren Condrey, 8:15-cr-00336 (ECF No. 10) (attached as Exhibit 15); Second Consent
Motion for Continuance of Daren Condrey’s Preliminary Hearing, United States v. Daren
Condrey, 8:15-cr-00336 (ECF No. 11) (attached as Exhibit 16); Third Consent Motion for
Continuance of Daren Condrey’s Preliminary Hearing, United States v. Daren Condrey, 8:15-cr-
00336 (ECF No. 13) (attached as Exhibit 17); Fourth Consent Motion for Continuance of Daren
Condrey’s Preliminary Hearing, United States v. Daren Condrey, 8:15-cr-00336 (ECF No. 16)
(attached as Exhibit 18); Second Consent Motion for Continuance of Carol Condrey’s
Preliminary Hearing, United States v. Carol Condrey, 8:14-mj-02424-CBD (ECF No. 10)
(attached as Exhibit 19). The charges against Mrs. Condrey were dismissed. See Order for
Dismissal, United States v. Carol Condrey, 8:14-mj-02424-CBD (ECF No. 12) (attached as
Exhibit 20). However, according to both Mr. Condrey’s plea agreement, and the lack of any
implied, were ever made to Mr. Condrey concerning the status of his wife’s case. See Condrey
Plea Agreement. The government has represented to Mr. Lambert that Mr. Condrey will be
Over three years later, and at least nine years after the investigation began, the
government sought a grand jury indictment charging Mr. Lambert. On January 10, 2018, Mr.
Lambert was indicted in an eleven-count indictment charging him under 18 U.S.C. § 371 with
Conspiracy to Violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “FCPA”) and to Commit Wire
Fraud (Count One), under 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-2 with Violation[s] of the FCPA (Counts Two
through Eight), under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 with Wire Fraud (Counts Nine and Ten), and under 18
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U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A), with Money Laundering (Count Eleven). See Indictment, United States
indictment was also filed with the Court just about two weeks ago – over a year after the
government indicted Mr. Lambert, shortly after Mr. Lambert’s unopposed request for a trial
continuance, and less than three months from the current trial date.
As the Court knows, Mr. Fisk died in 2011. However, the government “unambiguously”
represented to the Court that Mr. Fisk too “would have been charged” along with Mr. Lambert
In addition, by April 2015, at the latest, the prosecution learned that Mr. Fisk had been a
secret government and FBI operative at the time he purportedly recruited Mr. Lambert into the
payment scheme and allegedly made the illicit payments that are at issue in this case. In fact,
when asked by Mr. Mikerin’s counsel whether Mr. Fisk was a confidential FBI source, Energy
Department Special Agent Gadren testified that while “I don’t know for certain. I believe he
might have been . . . .” Id. at 32, ¶¶ 9-13 (emphasis added). Although the prosecution had been
on notice for, at least, almost four years that Mr. Fisk likely had been a secret government
operative, it failed to disclose this information to Mr. Lambert until March 26, 2019 – over 14
months after Mr. Lambert was indicted and barely one month before trial was then scheduled to
begin. 1 The prosecution also limited its subsequent written March 29, 2019 disclosure to a brief
single sentence generally merely repeating that Mr. Fisk had served as a government asset
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At the time of the disclosure to the defense on March 26, 2019, trial was scheduled to
commence on April 30, 2019.
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between 2006 and 2011. See March 29, 2019 DOJ Letter. That statement, of course, has no
evidentiary value.
Mr. Lambert’s counsel immediately asked for both the identity of the FBI agents
responsible for the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Fisk, and all documents and recordings relating to
such relationship. The government responded that it would not disclose any of the requested
materials. See April 1, 2019 DOJ Email. Despite Mr. Lambert ’s requests for all Rule 16 and
Brady materials regarding Mr. Fisk’s role as a confidential government asset, to this date, the
government has declined to produce either the identities of the relevant FBI agents or any
documents or recordings.
While the government did provide Mr. Lambert with a video recording of Mr. Mikerin’s
complete FBI interview, as well as audio recordings of his jail calls and his phone’s pen trap and
trace records, along with many of Mr. Mikerin’s emails and financial information relating to his
allegedly illegal payment scheme, it has failed to produce any audio or video recordings of these
illicit payments, including payments exchanged in a hotel room and during other meetings
confirmed by the government. See Transcript of Vadim Mikerin’s Detention Hearing Before the
Honorable Judge William Connelly at 17, ¶¶ 5-24, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, 8:14-cr-
00529-TDC (ECF No. 13) (attached as Exhibit 22); see Campbell Civil Complaint at 49.
Additionally, the government has failed to produce any recordings of telephone or in-person
communications between Mr. Mikerin and Mr. Fisk’s widow, Deborah Payne, in furtherance of
the alleged specifically charged conspiracy regarding these allegedly illegal payments. Mr.
Lambert’s counsel has requested these specified materials in multiple communications to the
government demanding production of all Rule 16 and Brady material, including in three letters
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requests for payments by and to Mr. Mikerin, Tenex, Tenam and/or any individuals associated
with them. February 19, 2019 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Exhibit 23); March 6, 2019 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Exhibit 24); April 2, 2019 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Exhibit 25).
In the year that followed Mr. Lambert’s indictment, the government produced certain
discovery to Mr. Lambert, including short summaries of almost two dozen witness interviews.
See February 2, 2018 DOJ Letter; January 7, 2019 Letter of the U.S. Department of Justice
(attached as Exhibit 26); March 13, 2019 Letter of the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Condrey, an alleged co-conspirator and the government’s main cooperating witness, Mrs.
Condrey, whom the government previously charged and believed was a co-conspirator, Mr.
Mikerin, the Russian co-conspirator purported to be at the center of the alleged scheme, Mr.
Campbell, the secret government operative, Deborah Payne, the wife of alleged co-conspirator
and secret government asset Mr. Fisk, Mr. Rubizhevsky, an alleged co-conspirator, and other
TLI employees with knowledge about the allegedly improper payments. 2 While the government
itself disclosed that at least 17 of these witnesses made statements consisting of “Potential Brady,
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The summaries further include statements by current and former TLI employees, current and
former TENAM employees, government agents and other third parties involved in the facts at
issue.
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Giglio or Impeachment Material,” it failed to provide Mr. Lambert with the actual FBI 302s,
notes, memoranda or other original source materials which the government had relied upon to
produce its succinct summaries. February 2, 2018 DOJ Letter. Additionally, while the
government did provide, pursuant to Rule 16, a copy of the FBI 302 containing Mr. Lambert’s
statements to the government, it failed to produce the actual government notes of the FBI’s
interview of Mr. Lambert, which had occurred the day before the government agent the FBI 302
summary.
Mr. Lambert’s counsel had specifically requested these and “all . . . [FBI] 302 and
interview memoranda” on two occasions back in 2016, before Mr. Lambert was even indicted,
and after Mr. Lambert’s counsel had made a comprehensive declination presentation to the
Government. See July 20, 2016 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Exhibit 28); July 25, 2016 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of Justice (attached as
Exhibit 29). Mr. Lambert’s counsel had further reiterated his specific request for these source
materials shortly after Mr. Lambert was indicted and before the government made its initial
discovery production. See January 17, 2018 Email of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of Justice
(attached as Exhibit 30). Mr. Lambert’s counsel continued to request production of all Rule 16
and Brady materials again on July 18, 2018, September 9, 2018, October 3, 2018, March 6, 2019,
and most recently on April 2, 2019. See July 18, 2018 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department
of Justice (attached as Exhibit 31); September 6, 2018 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department
of Justice (attached as Exhibit 32); October 3, 2018 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of
Justice (attached as Exhibit 33); March 6, 2019 Letter of Pillsbury to the U.S. Department of
Justice (attached as Exhibit 34); April 2, 2019 Pillsbury Letter. To this date, however, with the
sole exception of the FBI 302 of Mr. Lambert’s interview, the government has not provided any
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FBI 302s, interview notes or interview memoranda regarding these witness statements, including
ARGUMENT
Mr. Condrey, Mrs. Condrey, Mr. Mikerin and secret government assets Mr. Fisk and Mr.
Campbell are at the core of the government’s alleged payment scheme relating to Mr. Lambert.
Mr. Condrey, Mrs. Condrey, Mr. Mikerin and Mr. Fisk have all at one time been charged as Mr.
Lambert’s co-conspirators. Mr. Fisk, who Mr. Lambert just learned from the government was
one of the government’s own secret operatives, was also the same individual who allegedly
recruited Mr. Lambert and Mr. Condrey into the illicit scheme at the same time he was working
for the FBI. And both secret government operatives, Mr. Fisk and Mr. Campbell, are alleged to
have been involved in making payments to Mr. Mikerin. Nonetheless, the government has
declined to produce any Rule 16 and Brady materials about Mr. Fisk’s role as a secret
government asset during the time he is alleged to have been part of the charged conspiracy, and
has declined even to identify the agents with knowledge of the relationship between the FBI and
Mr. Fisk. Further, the government has refused to produce Rule 16 and Brady materials in the
form of recordings relating to allegedly illicit payments made or received by these and other
individuals. Finally, the government has refused to provide Rule 16 as well as Brady source
materials regarding the witnesses it disclosed to Mr. Lambert’s counsel, including those it
notes of Mr. Lambert’s statements to the government. The government’s failure to produce these
records, despite Mr. Lambert’s multiple requests, violates the government’s disclosure
obligations under Rule 16 and Brady. Accordingly, the Court should compel the government to
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Rules 16(a)(1)(A) and (B) require the government to disclose to the defendant the
substance of any relevant oral statements made by the defendant in response to interrogation by a
government agent, as well as the portion of any written record containing the substance of any
such statements. Additionally, Rule 16(a)(1)(E) requires the government to permit a defendant
to inspect documents “if the item is within the government’s possession, custody or control and .
. . the item is material to preparing the defense.” For a defendant to show that an item is
“material” under Rule 16, “[t]here must be some indication that the pretrial disclosure of the
disputed evidence would have enabled the defendant significantly to alter the quantum of proof
in his favor.” United States v. Ross, 511 F.2d 757, 763 (5th Cir. 1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S.
836. “[E]vidence is material as long as there is a strong indication that it will play an important
assisting impeachment or rebuttal.” United States v. Caro, 597 F.3d 608, 621 (4th Cir. 2010)
(quoting United States v. Lloyd, 992 F.2d 348, 351 (D.C. Cir. 1993)). When a party fails to meet
their Rule 16 discovery obligations “the court may: (A) order that party to permit discovery or
Similarly, Brady and its progeny require the government to disclose favorable evidence
to the accused where such evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment. Brady v.
Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87 (1963). A Brady violation entails three showings: (1) the information
impeaching,” (2) the information must have been suppressed or withheld by the prosecution, and
(3) the information must be “material” to guilt or punishment. Strickler v. Greene, 527 U.S. 263,
281-282 (1999). Favorable evidence includes not only evidence that tends to exculpate the
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accused, but also evidence that is useful to impeach the credibility of a government witness. See
Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 154 (1972); Smith v. Cain, 132 S. Ct. 627, 630 (2012).
Evidence is material where “there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been
disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” United States
v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667, 682 (1985); see Cone v. Bell, 556 U.S. 449, 469-470 (2009). A
United States v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667, 682 (1985). The failure to disclose material favorable
evidence violates due process “irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution,”
Brady, 373 U.S. at 87, and without regard to whether the evidence was actually known to the
individual prosecutor, or merely to “others acting on the government’s behalf in the case . . . .”
II. The Government’s Failure to Produce Discovery Materials Regarding Mr. Fisk’s
Role as a Secret Government Operative Violates Rule 16 and Brady
Information and records regarding Mr. Fisk’s recently revealed role as a covert
government asset are relevant to Mr. Lambert’s defense and need to be immediately disclosed to
There is no doubt that information and records regarding Mr. Fisk’s role as a secret
government operative are material to Mr. Lambert’s defense. First, Mr. Fisk is alleged to be Mr.
Lambert’s co-conspirator in the charged illegal payment scheme. Second, Mr. Lambert has now
been told that Mr. Fisk was working as a secret government asset during the exact same time he
allegedly made the very same illicit payments to Mr. Mikerin that are at issue in this case. Third,
Mr. Fisk was still serving as a covert FBI operative when he expanded the scheme to Mr.
Lambert and allegedly recruited him into the illicit payment scheme. And fourth, Mr. Fisk was
supposedly engaged in these activities at the exact same time that Mr. Campbell, the FBI’s other
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secret operative, was also allegedly making illicit payments to Mr. Mikerin and reporting about
this same payment scheme back to the FBI. Accordingly, materials regarding Mr. Fisk’s role as
a secret government operative will be corroborative of Mr. Lambert’s defenses, and will be used
witnesses’ testimony and assist Mr. Lambert in impeaching government witnesses at trial. See
By its own belated disclosure, the prosecution understood the significance of the fact that
Mr. Lambert’s alleged main co-conspirator was secretly working for the government at the same
time he is alleged to have engaged in the very criminal acts that are at issue in this case,
including recruiting Mr. Lambert to join the conspiracy. Why else would it have finally
disclosed the information to Mr. Lambert? For over a year, the government concealed that
information –which should have been disclosed as soon as Mr. Lambert was indicted– ultimately
choosing to provide a summary disclosure one month before the scheduled trial date. That
disclosure, however, is virtually useless to Mr. Lambert for purposes of trial because the
government has refused to produce anything of evidentiary value, including the identity of the
FBI agents responsible for the relationship between the FBI and Mr. Fisk, or any of the
Of course, if Mr. Fisk were still alive, he would know the identity of the FBI or other
government agents with whom he communicated or had a relationship while serving as a secret
government asset, as well the content of any such communications and the nature of any relevant
materials. But Mr. Fisk is dead. Thus, because Mr. Fisk is unavailable, discovery of information
and materials regarding Mr. Fisk’s role as a covert government operative and the true focus of
the FBI investigation is clearly necessary for Mr. Lambert to pursue and investigate the
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information recently disclosed by the government. For instance, Mr. Lambert would use these
records and information to learn the nature and extent of any communications between Mr. Fisk
and FBI or other government agents, as well as of any documents reflecting, among other things,
any directions or instructions that Mr. Fisk may have received from the FBI or other government
agencies. At the very bare minimum, Mr. Lambert is entitled to learn the identity of the FBI or
other government agents with whom Mr. Fisk communicated and had a relationship while
serving as a covert government asset. Without the identity of the FBI agents and the documents
reflecting the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Fisk, Mr. Lambert has no ability to pursue this line of
defense, and the jury cannot properly assess Mr. Fisk’s role and credibility or the credibility of
the FBI investigation. These are the very same materials and information that the government
would have produced in discovery if Mr. Fisk were still alive and had been charged, as the
government assured the Court it would have done had Mr. Fisk lived.
Thus, the government’s failure to produce materials regarding Mr. Fisk’s role as a secret
government operative violates the government’s discovery obligations under Rule 16 and Brady.
The government cannot satisfy these obligations by sitting on the information and then making a
last-minute disclosure of no evidentiary value. Accordingly, the Court should compel the
III. The Government’s Failure to Produce Mr. Mikerin’s Audio or Video Recordings
Violates Rule 16 and Brady
Recordings of illicit payments, or requests for payments, by and to Mr. Mikerin, Tenex,
Tenam or any individuals associated with them consist of Rule 16 and Brady material. Thus, the
government’s failure to produce audio or video recordings regarding these payments violates the
government’s disclosure obligations under Rule 16 as well as Brady and its progeny.
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According to the government, Mr. Lambert allegedly conspired with Mr. Condrey, Mr.
Fisk and Mr. Mikerin to make illicit payments to Mr. Mikerin so that he would use his influence
to assist TLI in securing business with Tenex. Thus, recordings of, or about, illicit payments
requested by, or made to, Mr. Mikerin are central to the alleged criminal scheme and material to
Mr. Lambert’s defense. Similarly, any recordings about requests for, or payments to, Tenex,
Tenam or any associated individuals go to the core of the government’s allegations about Mr.
Mikerin’s improprieties at Tenex, and are therefore material to Mr. Lambert’s defense. This is
even more so when alleged payments were made by Mr. Campbell and Mr. Fisk, the
government’s own secret operatives, to further the illicit scheme that the government relied upon
in its attempt to “flip” Mr. Mikerin. Most significantly, communications relating to illicit
payments between Mr. Mikerin and Mrs. Payne, the widow of the FBI operative and co-
conspirator who supposedly recruited Mr. Lambert into the alleged scheme (and any recordings
of these communications), are central to the government’s allegations that Mr. Lambert
conspired with Mr. Mikerin and Mr. Fisk, and are material to Mr. Lambert’s defense. These
recordings would assist Mr. Lambert in identifying any other individuals who may have
witnessed, or had knowledge of, payments to or from Mr. Mikerin, and in providing potentially
exculpatory information regarding the legitimate reason for the payments, or about Mr.
Lambert’s lack of involvement and knowledge in making them. Additionally, recordings may
well be corroborative of defense witnesses’ testimony. These recordings would also provide
In sum, as outlined above, there are numerous and various ways in which Mr. Lambert
could make good use of the information included in these video and audio recordings about
matters directly related to the charged conspiracy. Names, statements and identities of the
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individuals present during the allegedly illegal payments may open a myriad of doors to bolster
Mr. Lambert’s defense arguments and attack the government’s theory. There is simply no good
reason why the government should not be compelled to turn over to Mr. Lambert all the
materials it possesses relating to Mr. Mikerin and the very illegal scheme of which he pled guilty
Mikerin, Tenex, Tenam or any individuals associated with them are certainly material to the
allegations in the indictment and material to Mr. Lambert’s defense. For example, recordings of
Mr. Mikerin’s conversations with Mrs. Payne about allegedly illicit payments made by her secret
FBI source husband would be material and particularly favorable to Mr. Lambert because they
Mr. Lambert is prepared to explain to the Court in further detail, on an ex parte basis, how these
Thus, the government’s failure to produce audio and video recordings of illicit payments,
or requests for payments, by and to Mr. Mikerin, Tenex, Tenam or any associated individuals
violates Rule 16 and Brady. Accordingly, the Court should compel the government to promptly
IV. The Government’s Failure to Produce FBI 302s, Interview Memoranda and
Interview Notes Reflecting Witness Statements Violates Rule 16 and Brady
The vast majority of the cursory statements that the government disclosed to Mr. Lambert
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Presumably, the government would have also identified all of the witness statements that it
subsequently chose to disclose to Mr. Lambert as “potentially Brady, Giglio or impeachment”
had Mr. Lambert not alerted the government that he was seeking to obtain the witness
statements’ underlying source materials.
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government’s brief summaries of what it believes original source materials say are insufficient to
satisfy the government’s obligations when it possesses the underlying source materials from
which these summaries were presumably crafted. Thus, the government’s failure to produce the
underlying FBI 302s, interview memoranda and interview notes violates the government’s
There is no doubt that the statements that the government cursorily summarized in its
disclosures to Mr. Lambert are both favorable to Mr. Lambert and material to his defense. The
government itself has characterized many of them as “Potential Brady, Giglio or Impeachment
Material.” February 2, 2018 DOJ Letter. For example, among other things, the government’s
brief summaries reflect excerpts of exculpatory statements of Mr. Lambert’s alleged co-
conspirators, including Mr. Condrey, the government’s main cooperating witness, as well as
statements by Mrs. Condrey, the only remaining available witness with direct knowledge of the
facts who can testify about Mr. Lambert’s lack of involvement in the alleged scheme. 4 They also
include the government’s own brief summaries of statements by other TLI employees with
knowledge of the allegedly illicit payments to Mr. Mikerin, which further bolster Mr. Lambert’s
statements of Mr. Campbell, the FBI’s own secret operative tasked with reporting to the
government about Mr. Mikerin’s alleged payment scheme. These statements support Mr.
Lambert’s defense as well. Although it goes without saying that the government’s statements
will somewhat aid Mr. Lambert in both identifying potential defense witnesses and preparing
them for trial, Mr. Lambert is entitled to the full source materials from which the government
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Mr. Fisk and Mr. Mikerin, the only other witnesses with direct knowledge of the facts who
could provide exculpatory testimony will not be present during Mr. Lambert’s trial. Mr. Fisk
died in 2011 and Mr. Mikerin is believed to be somewhere in Russia.
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created its statements. Mr. Lambert may well need to use these undisclosed materials to impeach
the government’s main cooperating witness and any other government witness whose statements
certainly more than a reasonable probability that these undisclosed exculpating source materials
As disclosed by the government, however, their carefully crafted summary statements are
merely cursory, often limited to single-paragraph summaries, and at times even so succinctly
described as not to provide any substantive information at all. See, e.g., February 2, 2018 DOJ
Letter (summarily providing that counsel for Mr. Condrey and TLI “denied wrongdoing” on
behalf of Mr. Condrey). Clearly, Mr. Lambert cannot effectively use paraphrased information or
identify the best defense witnesses, prepare direct and cross-examinations, develop defense
arguments, or confront a witness with their prior statements, when the source materials from
which those statements were crafted are readily available and in the government’s possession.
See United States v. Rodriguez, 496 F.3d 221, 226 (2d Cir. 2007) (holding that the government is
required to make Brady disclosures that are “sufficiently specific and complete” to permit
effective use by the defense). Similarly, these statements are so generally summarized that Mr.
potentially impeach a government witness’s broader and likely more expansive testimony at trial.
See Jean v. Rice, 945 F.2d 82, 85-87 (holding that the government’s failure to turn over video
tapes of the government witness’s hypnosis was a Brady violation because it prevented the
defense from impeaching the witness’s statements). Moreover, without access to the source
materials reflecting the full and actual statements, it is practically impossible for Mr. Lambert to
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identify any discrepancies between the extremely cursory summary that the government
provided to Mr. Lambert and a witness’s actual statements, as well as between the witness’s
statements as reported and their potential testimony at trial. See United States v. Deli, 151 F.3d
938, 942-44 (9th Cir. 1998) (finding that although the government had produced an interview
summary, the government’s refusal to turn over the interview notes violated Brady because
discrepancies existed between the summary memorandum and the notes). Significantly, the
Department of Justice Manual too recognizes that prosecutors should turn over discoverable
information “in its original form” unless the disclosure would “create security concerns or when
such information is contained in attorney notes, internal agency documents, confidential source
documents, Suspicious Activity Reports, etc.” U.S. Department of Justice Manual, Section 165.
And even if discoverable information is not provided in its original form and is instead provided
in a letter to defense counsel, the Justice Manual provides that “prosecutors should take great
care to ensure that the full scope of pertinent information is provided to the defendant.” Id.
Thus, the government’s failure to produce FBI 302s, interview memoranda and interview
notes reflecting the witnesses’ actual statements violates both Rule 16 and Brady. Accordingly,
the Court should compel the government to promptly provide these materials to Mr. Lambert. 5
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In the alternative, Mr. Lambert respectfully requests that the Court, at a minimum, conduct an
in camera review of the FBI 302s, interview notes and any other interview memoranda to
assess whether they accurately match the content of the government-created summaries, or
contain discrepancies that would aid Mr. Lambert’s defense. See, e.g., Brown, 303 F.3d at 588
(noting that the district court had previously compared, in camera, the agent’s notes and the
FBI 302 report); United States v. Rudolph, 224 F.R.D. 503, 514 (N.D. Ala. 2004) (holding that
“if an in camera inspection can allay some of defendant’s concerns and avoid unnecessary
error at this early stage, the court is willing to undertake the task of reviewing” the
investigative agents’ rough notes).
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Mr. Lambert’s statements to the FBI agents during the government’s raid of TLI’s offices
are unlikely to have been accurately and completely captured in the FBI 302. Thus, the
government’s failure to produce the FBI agents’ interview notes reflecting Mr. Lambert’s actual
It is undisputed that Mr. Lambert’s statements to the FBI are Rule 16 material per se. See
Rules 16(a)(1)(A) and (B). Thus, Mr. Lambert is statutorily entitled to them. However, the FBI
302 supposedly reporting Mr. Lambert’s statements, which was transcribed the day after the
agents interrogated Mr. Lambert, contains surprisingly few statements in quotations. Instead, the
report mostly consists of the FBI agent’s own recharacterization of what Mr. Lambert allegedly
told the government. Consequently, on its face, the FBI 302 does not accurately reflect Mr.
Lambert’s actual statements. See United States v. Brown, 303 F.3d 582, 590 (5th Cir. 2002)
(holding that the government must produce interview notes if “the content of those notes have
[not] been accurately captured in a type-written report, such as a 302”). Thus, because the four-
page FBI 302 includes just a few quotes directly attributed to Mr. Lambert, it is highly probable
that significant discrepancies and omissions exist between the FBI 302 and Mr. Lambert’s actual
responses as transcribed in the interview notes. See United States v. Coe, 220 F.3d 573, 583 (7th
Cir. 2000) (alluding that only the presence of “minor” discrepancies between the interview notes
and the written reports would dispense the government from its obligation to turn over the notes).
Therefore, the government’s failure to produce the FBI interview notes reflecting Mr.
Lambert’s actual statements violates Rule 16. Accordingly, the Court should compel the
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In the alternative, Mr. Lambert respectfully requests that the Court, at a minimum, conduct an
in camera review of the FBI interview notes to assess whether they accurately match the
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WHEREFOR, Mr. Lambert respectfully requests that the Court schedule an oral hearing
on this motion and issue an Order compelling the government to promptly produce certain Rule
Respectfully Submitted,
content of the FBI 302 or contain discrepancies that would aid Mr. Lambert’s defense. See,
e.g., Brown, 303 F.3d at 588; Rudolph, 224 F.R.D. at 514.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this 15th day of April 2019, I caused the foregoing Motion
Requesting an Order Compelling the Government to Produce Certain Rule 16 and Brady
Evidence and accompanying Memorandum of Law to be filed electronically using the Court’s
CM/ECF system, which automatically sent a notice of electronic filing to all counsel of record.
Respectfully Submitted,
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I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best
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CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
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ORDER GRANTING
CONTINUANCE PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. S.l(d) AND
EXCLUSION OF TIME PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. &316l(h)
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(d) and Exclusion of Time Pursuant to 18 U.S.c.
93161 (h)(7) (the "Consent Motion"), the Court makes the following findings:
1. On October 19, 2014, the Defendant was charged by criminal complaint with
conspiring to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.c. 9 1349 and arrested. Thereafter, the
Defendant was released without supervision. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for
2. However, in the Consent Motion, the parties have expressed that they need
additional time to discuss a possible resolution of this matter. For this reason, they have requested
a continuance ofthe preliminary hearing until January 19,2015, as well as an exclusion of the time
between November 19,2014 and January 19,20 IS, from the computation of the time within which
3. For the reasons stated above and in the Consent Motion, the Court concludes that,
pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.1 (d), there is good cause to grant the continuance of
the preliminary hearing until January 19, 2015, as consented-to by the Defendant. Further, and
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for those same reasons, the Court concludes that, pursuant to 18 U.S.c. g3161 (h)(7), the ends of
justice would be served by excluding time as requested by the parties, and that those ends do here
outweigh the interest of the public and the Defendant (who consents to this exclusion of time) in
WHEREFORE, in the interest ofthe Defendant and the interests of the public, it is this
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(i) the preliminary hearing in this matter shall occur on January 19,2015, at 4!Ul) frY)
(ii) all time from November 19,2014 until January 19,2015, is excluded from the 30-day
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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(d) and 18 U.S.C. §3161(h)(7), the
United States of America, by and through its attorneys, hereby moves for an Order (i) continuing
the preliminary hearing in the above-captioned matter and (ii) excluding time under the Speedy
Trial Act. The Defendant, by and through his attorney Robert Bonsib, has consented to the relief
1. On October 29, 2014, the Defendant was charged by criminal complaint with
conspiring to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 and arrested. Thereafter, the
complaint who is “not in custody” is entitled to a preliminary hearing to establish probable cause
within 21 days of his initial appearance. Thus, in the instant case, a preliminary hearing was
scheduled for November 19, 2014. The Government moved for a sixty-day continuance of the
preliminary hearing to January 19, 2015, which motion was granted. The Government then
moved for a second continuance of this preliminary hearing for another sixty days until Thursday,
March 19, 2015, which motion was also granted. In the present motion, the Government, with
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consent of defense counsel, moved for a third sixty-day extension, until May 18, 2015. Such a
continuance is appropriate because (i) the Defendant consents to such relief and (ii) good cause
exists, as additional time is necessary to provide the parties an adequate opportunity to explore
potential resolution of this matter. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 5.1(d). In the instant case, the
government and defendant are engaged in ongoing discussions which may resolve this matter
pre-indictment.
individual with the commission of an offense” must be filed within 30 days of his arrest. 18
U.S.C. § 3161(b). Thus, in the instant case, any indictment or information was to have been filed
on or before November 28, 2014, absent an order from the Court extending the timeframe within
which to indict the Defendant or charge him by information. This Court’s prior order extended
that deadline to January 19, 2015, and again until March 19, 2015. The Government now moves
to further exclude time within which an indictment or information must be filed under the Speedy
Trial Act from March 19, 2015, until May 18, 2015. Such an exclusion of time is appropriate
because (i) the Defendant consents and (ii) the “the ends of justice [would be] served” by
providing the parties this additional time to discuss a potential resolution of this matter prior to the
4. For the foregoing reasons, the parties request the Court to order the time within
which to indict or file an information be tolled from March 19, 2015, until May 18, 2015, and that
the Court continue the preliminary hearing in this matter until March 18, 2015.
5. Attached for the Court’s review and convenience is a Proposed Order that
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WHEREFORE, the parties respectfully request that the Court issue an order (i) excluding
the time within which to file an indictment or information from March 19, 2015, to May 18, 2015,
under the Speedy Trial Act, and (ii) continuing the preliminary hearing in this matter until May 18,
Respectfully submitted,
Rod J. Rosenstein
United States Attorney
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Adam K. Ake
James A. Crowell IV
Assistant United States Attorneys
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Upon consideration of the Government’s Third Consent Motion for Continuance Pursuant
to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(d) and Exclusion of Time Pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
§3161(h)(7) (the “Third Consent Motion”), the Court makes the following findings:
1. On October 19, 2014, the Defendant was charged by criminal complaint with
conspiring to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 and arrested. Thereafter, the
Defendant was released without supervision. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for
November 19, 2014, in accordance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(c). The parties
moved to continue that hearing for sixty days, up through January 19, 2015, which motion was
granted. The parties again moved to continue the hearing for an additional sixty days, up through
2. In the Third Consent Motion, the parties have expressed that they request additional
time to discuss a possible resolution of this matter. For this reason, they have requested a
continuance of the preliminary hearing until May 18, 2015, as well as an exclusion of the time
between March 19, 2015 and May 18, 2015, from the computation of the time within which to file
3. For the reasons stated above and in the Third Consent Motion, the Court concludes
that, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.1(d), there is good cause to grant the
continuance of the preliminary hearing until May 18, 2015, as consented-to by the Defendant.
Further, and for those same reasons, the Court concludes that, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §3161(h)(7),
the ends of justice would be served by excluding time as requested by the parties, and that those
ends do here outweigh the interest of the public and the Defendant (who consents to this exclusion
WHEREFORE, in the interest of the Defendant and the interests of the public, it is this
(i) the preliminary hearing in this matter shall occur on May 18, 2015, at _______
(ii) all time from March 19, 2015, until May 18, 2015, is excluded from the 30-day period
in which an indictment or information charging the Defendant with the commission of an offense
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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(d) and 18 U.S.C. §3161(h)(7), the
United States of America, by and through its attorneys, hereby moves for an Order (i) continuing
the preliminary hearing in the above-captioned matter and (ii) excluding time under the Speedy
Trial Act. The Defendant, by and through her attorney Timothy Maloney, has consented to the
relief requested herein. In support of this motion, the Government states as follows:
1. On October 29, 2014, the Defendant was charged by criminal complaint with
conspiring to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 and arrested. Thereafter, the
complaint who is “not in custody” is entitled to a preliminary hearing to establish probable cause
within 21 days of his initial appearance. Thus, in the instant case, a preliminary hearing was
scheduled for November 20, 2014. The Government moved for a continuance of this preliminary
hearing for sixty days until Monday, January 19, 2015, which motion was granted. The
Government now moves for a second continuance for another sixty days until March 19, 2015.
Such a continuance is appropriate because (i) the Defendant consents to such relief and (ii) good
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cause exists, as additional time is necessary to provide the parties an adequate opportunity to
individual with the commission of an offense” must be filed within 30 days of her arrest. 18
U.S.C. § 3161(b). Thus, in the instant case, any indictment or information was to be filed on or
before November 28, 2014, absent an order from the Court extending the timeframe within which
to indict the Defendant or charge her by information. The Court’s earlier order excluded the time
between November 19, 2014, and January 20, 2015. The Government now moves to exclude
time within which an indictment or information must be filed under the Speedy Trial Act from
January 20, 2015, through March 19, 2015. Such an exclusion of time is appropriate because (i)
the Defendant consents and (ii) the “the ends of justice [would be] served” by providing the parties
this additional time to discuss a potential resolution of this matter prior to the filing of any
4. For the foregoing reasons, the parties request the Court to order the time within
which to indict or file an information be tolled from January 20, 2015, to March 19, 2015, and that
the Court continue the preliminary hearing in this matter until March 19, 2015.
5. Attached for the Court’s review and convenience is a Proposed Order that
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WHEREFORE, the parties respectfully request that the Court issue an order (i) excluding
the time within which to file an indictment or information from January 19, 2015, to March 19,
2015, under the Speedy Trial Act, and (ii) continuing the preliminary hearing in this matter until
March 19, 2015, in conformance with the Proposed Order submitted herewith.
Respectfully submitted,
Rod J. Rosenstein
United States Attorney
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Adam K. Ake
James A. Crowell IV
Assistant United States Attorneys
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EXCLUSION OF TIME PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. §3161(h)
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(d) and Exclusion of Time Pursuant to 18
U.S.C. §3161(h)(7) (the “Consent Motion”), the Court makes the following findings:
1. On October 19, 2014, the Defendant was charged by criminal complaint with
conspiring to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 and arrested. Thereafter, the
Defendant was released without supervision. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for
November 20, 2014, in accordance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1(c). By Order
following a consent motion to extend deadlines, the preliminary hearing was earlier continued to
2. In the Second Consent Motion, the parties have expressed that they need additional
time to discuss a possible resolution of this matter. For this reason, they have requested a
continuance of the preliminary hearing until March 19, 2015, as well as an exclusion of the time
between January 20, 2015, and March 19, 2015 from the computation of the time within which to
3. For the reasons stated above and in the Second Consent Motion, the Court
concludes that, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.1(d), there is good cause to grant the
continuance of the preliminary hearing until March 19, 2015, as consented-to by the Defendant.
Further, and for those same reasons, the Court concludes that, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §3161(h)(7),
the ends of justice would be served by excluding time as requested by the parties, and that those
ends do here outweigh the interest of the public and the Defendant (who consents to this exclusion
WHEREFORE, in the interest of the Defendant and the interests of the public, it is this
(i) the preliminary hearing in this matter shall occur on March 19, 2015, at _______
(ii) all time from January 20, 2015, through March 19, 2015, is excluded from the 30-day
period in which an indictment or information charging the Defendant with the commission of an
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1 community. And in order to obtain an Indictment, the government
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1 THE DEFENDANT: No, Your Honor.
10 you. First, under our system of justice, even though you have
11 been charged with a crime, you are innocent until proven guilty.
12 You are not required to plead guilty and you have a right
21 to sit in the jury box in the courtroom here to hear your case.
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Criminal Division
Febmary 2, 201 8
VIAFEDEX
fu connection with the agreed-upon Protective Order Governing Discovery [ECF No. 18]
(enclosed) in the above-captioned case, in response to your early-request for discove1y , dated
July 20, 201 6, and pursuant to Rule 16(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ("Fed. R.
Crim. P."), this letter accompanies and sets fo1ih the government's initial discovery in this case
and seeks reciprocal discove1y.
Initial Discovery
fu 201 6, the government provided you with limited pre-indictment discove1y, which
included the following documents:
• A September 23, 2011 email thread between Vadim Mikerin, Mark Lambe1t, and
Daren Condrey, which was Bates stamped TLI-003105 -TLI-003107;
• A December 2011 email thread between Vadim Mikerin, Mark Lambeit, and Daren
Condrey, which was Bates stamped TLI-004145 - TLI-004148;
• A March 28, 2012 email thread between Vadim Mikerin, Mark Lambe1t and Daren
Condrey, which was Bates stamped TLI-003272;
• A June 8, 2012 email thread between Mark Lambe1t and Daren Condrey, which was
Bates stamped TLI-003222 -TLI-003223;
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• An August 2013 email thread between Vadim Mikerin, Mark Lambert and Daren
Condrey, which was Bates stamped TLI-004175 – TLI-004177;
• A November 2013 email thread involving Vadim Mikerin, Mark Lambert and Daren
Condrey, which was Bates stamped TLI-003248 – TLI-003249.
Enclosed with this letter please find a thumb drive that contains 98,615 pages of
documents covering the following categories of materials (with Bates-stamped ranges for each
category in parentheses). The password to access the thumb drive is: AoNNHPMsJI$!
• Additional non-privileged documents obtained from Rod Fisk’s Gmail email account,
rfiskster@gmail.com (DOJ-0000045444 – DOJ0000048473);
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• Bank records and correspondence connected to Swiss bank accounts associated with
Ollins Development Inc. (referenced in the Indictment as “Shell Company C”) that
were provided to the government by the competent Swiss authorities pursuant to a
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request (DOJ-0000058244 – DOJ-0000059785);
In addition to the hard drive, we are producing one (1) disc with the following electronic
files at this time:
• Three (3) recorded phone calls that your client had with representatives of Sandy
Spring Bank in September 2011, December 2011, and March 2012 (DOJ-ADD-
000002 – DOJ-ADD-000004);
• Thirty (30) recordings of Vadim Mikerin that were turned over to the FBI by a FBI
confidential informant (DOJ-ADD-000005 – DOJ-ADD-000034); and
• A copy of a civil complaint filed against Vadim Mikerin, TLI, and Daren Condrey by
William Douglas Campbell on June 6, 2016 in the United States District Court for the
District of Maryland (1:16-cv-01888) (DOJ-ADD-000039 – DOJ-000069).
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The government is also producing four (4) discs containing the complete video interview by law
enforcement of Vadim Mikerin on October 29, 2014 (DOJ-ADD-000035 – DOJ-000038).
In addition, the following hard copy documents are being provided to you at this time:
• A copy of a FD-302 memorializing the interview of your client on October 29, 2014;
• A copy of the plea agreement and statement of offense in the matter of United States
v. Boris Rubizhevsky, 8:15-cr-332-TDC (D. Md. June 15, 2015) (ECF No. 26);
• A copy of the plea agreement and statement of offense in the matter of United States
v. Daren Condrey, 8:15-cr-336-TDC (D. Md. June 17, 2015) (ECF No. 22);
• A copy of the plea agreement and statement of offense in the matter of United States
v. Vadim Mikerin, 8:14-cr-529 (D. Md. Aug. 31, 2015) (ECF No. 103);
• Affidavit of FBI Special Agent David Lehr in support of criminal seizure warrants,
dated October 29, 2014 and approved on November 5, 2014;
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• A letter to the FBI from your client, signed under penalty of perjury, concerning his
“Claim of Ownership and Contesting of Forfeiture,” dated January 28, 2015.
This material is being provided to you with the understanding that your handling of
all discovery material will be subject to the Protective Order Governing Discovery (ECF
No. 18) in this case. You are reminded that much of the material being disclosed to you
includes sensitive information, personal identifying information, and could adversely
impact ongoing criminal investigations.
Please note that this discovery includes early disclosure of material that is not required
under the rules and discovery of other matters that have been under investigation that do not have
a direct relationship to the charges against your client. The fact that the government is providing
such discovery does not constitute an acknowledgement or admission on the government’s part
that such materials are admissible or relevant to the charges against your client nor does the
disclosure indicate that such materials constitute Brady, Giglio or impeachment material. In
addition, the disclosure of otherwise non-discoverable material at this time does not obligate the
government to provide all non-discoverable material in its possession nor does the government
represent the existence or non-existence of any other non-discoverable materials in its
possession.
Subsequent Discovery
The government is in possession of certain computers, hard drives, and any other
evidence that was seized in connection with this investigation, which the government will make
available to you for inspection and copying upon request. The contents of these computers and
hard drives have been uploaded to our document database and will be provided to you during
discovery. Please contact me to arrange a mutually convenient time for your inspection of such
items.
Please note that taint terms were applied to remove potentially privileged materials from
our document database that were collected through the execution of search warrants. The
privilege review is ongoing and there remain approximately 38,152 documents that are in the
process of being reviewed by our filter team and may be subject to further productions to you on
a rolling basis.
Rule 16 Materials
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16(a), we direct your attention to some
specific materials that are being provided with this letter:
Oral, Written, or Recorded Statements of the Defendant – Rule 16(a)(1)(A) & (B)
Today’s discovery includes the following:
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• Two FBI FD-302 interview memoranda, which memorialize your client’s non-custodial
statement and consent search of TLI emails on October 29, 2014. Please note that your
client advised FBI agents during the search that TLI uses Apple computers and Kerio for
its email server. Your client also provided the name of TLI’s director of IT services and
your client contacted the IT director and asked him to return to TLI to assist the FBI in its
search. When advised by FBI that the search warrant only applied to the Fulton office of
TLI and did not cover data stored off-site, your client asked whether he could just give
the data and was advised that he could provide consent. Your client then signed a FD-26
Consent to Search Form for the email accounts and account profile data associated with
Carol Condrey, Daren Condrey, Sergey Danilenko, Mark Lambert, and Mike Rosso.
• A recorded communication between a FBI confidential informant and your client (and
Daren Condrey) on August 14, 2014.
• Three audio recordings between your client and representatives of Sandy Spring Bank in
2011 and 2012.
• Also, please note that your client made the following statement during the search of
TLI’s offices on October 29, 2014 as he directed FBI agents to files entitled “Tenex
Remuneration”: “They will want to see – 1000%.”
• A letter addressed to the FBI, signed by your client under penalty of perjury, concerning
“Claim of Ownership and Contesting of Forfeiture,” dated January 28, 2015.
In addition, voluminous emails, letters, and other documents can be found among the documents
that are being disclosed today and will be included within the subsequent discovery production
of search warrant materials.
Prior Record – Rule 16(a)(1)(D)
A copy of your client’s criminal record is provided. The government understands that
your client has no known criminal convictions.
Documents and Objects – Rule 16(a)(1)(E)
As described above, the government is providing you with a number of documents
collected in the course of the investigation and we will be providing you with additional
documents under separate cover. We are further making computers, hard drives, and items that
were seized from TLI and your client available to you for inspection and copying. We are not
aware of any additional materials in our possession that were obtained from or belong to your
client. If the government comes into possession of additional information or determines that any
materials not previously turned over are material to preparing the defense or are likely to be used
in our case-in-chief, then we will provide them to you in a subsequent production.
Reports of Examinations and Tests – Rule 16(a)(1)(F)
At this time, the government does not believe that there are any examinations or tests that
are in the government’s possession and which would be material to the preparation of the
defense or are intended for use in the government’s case-in-chief.
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• Your client also committed perjury and made false statements when denying culpability
in an affidavit to contest forfeiture in a letter to the FBI that he signed “under penalty of
perjury” on January 28, 2015.
The government reserves the right to provide you with notice of its intent to introduce additional
404(b) and bad acts evidence in advance of trial.
Potential Conflict of Interest
As discussed, we understand that Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP may have
represented TENEX, TENAM and/or Vadim Mikerin at various points between 2010 and 2014.
The details of such representation appear to have included the registration of TENEX/TENAM’s
U.S. presence as a corporation in the U.S. and real estate-related transactions associated with the
opening of TENAM. We have brought this prior representation to your attention because we
believe that Pillsbury’s past representation of TENEX, TENAM or Mikerin could create an
irreconcilable conflict of interest in your representation of Mr. Lambert if certain defenses or
arguments were raised at trial. One such conflict would arise if Mr. Lambert were to challenge
TENEX and TENAM’s status as a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of the Russian
government, through the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (“Rosatom”). In an effort to
resolve this potential conflict, we suggest entering into a stipulation about this undisputed facts.
Please let us know if you are amenable to such a stipulation or if you anticipate challenging
TENEX and TENAM’s ultimate ownership and control by Rosatom.
Potential Brady, Giglio or Impeachment Material
The government recognizes its obligations under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963),
United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97 (1976), United States v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667 (1985), and
Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419 (1995). The government also recognizes its obligations under
Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972) and Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959). We
further recognize that our view of what evidence may constitute Brady or Giglio and yours may
vary. Accordingly, we urge you to thoroughly review the government’s body of evidence, which
is provided herein and under separate cover, and will be made available to you in accordance
with Rule 16. In addition to any such material which may be included in our document
productions, we are aware of the following information from witness interviews and attorney
proffers which we are bringing to your attention at this time. Among other things, this
information includes information that could be used to show your client’s coconspirators’ and
Vadim Mikerin’s involvement in the criminal scheme and is being disclosed at this time:
Carol Condrey
• Carol Condrey was a TLI employee and wife of Daren Condrey. Mrs. Condrey was
interviewed and denied any knowledge of kickback payments or bid rigging activities by
TLI in connection with TENEX contracts. She denied knowledge of Mikerin or the
marvijodel@gmail.com email account. She also denied knowledge of code words like
“LF,” “lucky figure” and “cake.” Mrs. Condrey also denied having seen an internal TLI
spreadsheet documenting “remuneration” payments, but stated that it was either Daren
Condrey’s or Mark Lambert’s after it was shown to her. She speculated that she was
90% sure it was Daren Condrey’s spreadsheet.
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Daren Condrey
• Daren Condrey was a co-president and co-owner of TLI with your client. Mr. Condrey
pleaded guilty in connection with this matter, and a copy of his plea agreement and
statement of offense are included in this production.
• Robert Bonsib, Esq. is counsel for Daren Condrey, and Thomas Buchanan, Esq. is
counsel for TLI. During early conversations soon after Daren Condrey was charged by
criminal complaint in connection with this case, both Mr. Bonsib and Mr. Buchanan
denied wrongdoing on behalf of Daren Condrey before he proffered with the government,
admitted to his offenses, and entered into a plea agreement.
• During a proffer with the government on April 3, 2015, Daren Condrey explained that he
first became aware of TLI’s kickback scheme with Mikerin in approximately 2008. Mr.
Condrey stated that he learned of the kickback scheme from Rod Fisk and he could not
specifically recall if Mr. Lambert was present during that conversation, but assumed he
must have been or Mr. Lambert would have learned about the scheme shortly thereafter.
Mr. Condrey also explained that Vadim Mikerin always discussed kickbacks in person.
Rod Fisk was the person from TLI who always communicated with Mikerin about the
kickback scheme while Mr. Fisk was alive.
• During a proffer with the government on April 9, 2015, Mr. Condrey stated that the first
kickback conversation with Mr. Fisk occurred in approximately 2005 or 2006 and Mark
Lambert was likely present during the conversation but he could not specifically recall all
three men being present. In the same April 9, 2015 interview, Mr. Condrey stated that
kickbacks that did not involve Mr. Condrey would have predated 2004. Mr. Condrey
also stated that Mikerin communicated about kickbacks in-person and in writing.
• During an interview on May 5, 2016, Mr. Condrey stated that Mark Lambert was
responsible for 90% of wire transfers to TENEX and to the offshore companies for
“remuneration” payments.
Deborah Payne Fisk
• Deborah Payne Fisk was the wife of Rod Fisk, a co-owner and executive of TLI who was
identified in the Indictment as “Co-Conspirator One”. After Fisk died, Mikerin contacted
Mrs. Fisk to obtain from Mrs. Fisk’s home approximately $15,000 in cash, a personal
checkbook in Mikerin’s name, and apparently fraudulent invoices and other documents
that relate to the corrupt and fraudulent kickback scheme.
• Deborah Payne Fisk learned later in her marriage to Fisk that he had a relationship with
Mikerin, TENEX, and a host of “shell” companies that she could not understand. Mrs.
Fisk explained that she and Fisk became very close to Vadim Mikerin and his wife about
four to five years after TLI was established. After Fisk’s death, Mrs. Fisk reviewed
Fisk’s email account and noticed that he and Mikerin used code words and aliases when
they emailed one another. Mrs. Fisk also reviewed Fisk’s correspondence with others,
including a suspected mistress, and concluded that Fisk did not have a lot of love for the
United States. According to Mrs. Fisk, Fisk received some initial seed money to start
TLI from a Russian source and she believed that Fisk had grown increasingly loyal to the
Russians. She and Fisk visited Russia seven or eight times.
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• According to Deborah Payne Fisk, Fisk’s termination from TLI was part of the agreement
for Daher’s acquisition of the company. Mrs. Fisk speculated that Condrey and Lambert
wanted Fisk out so that they could run a clean business.
Lauren Haas
• Lauren Haas was a receptionist at TLI. She stated that Lambert was in Kentucky a lot
during 2013, and estimated that he was traveling for approximately nine months.
Cheryl Moss Herman
• Cheryl Moss Herman was engaged by Rod Fisk to be a consultant for TENAM. Ms.
Herman stated that although she communicated primarily with Fisk and provided
consulting services for TENAM, she received payment from Sigma International, a
company that she did not recognize but later learned was associated with William
Douglas Campbell. According to Herman, Fisk helped Mikerin open the TENAM office.
Aliya Hulse
• Aliya Hulse was the office manager at TENAM. She initially met with Rod Fisk before
interviewing with Mikerin to get the job at TENAM. At first, she reported to Fisk who
was a consultant to TENAM.
• According to Ms. Hulse, Sigma International and its principal William Doug Campbell
were a consultant for TENAM. Campbell would meet with Mikerin and Fisk in closed
meetings, which was unusual at TENAM.
• After Fisk died, Mikerin approved Boris Rubizhevsky and his company NexGen taking
over the final months of a consulting agreement with TENAM.
• Ms. Hulse never suspected any illegal activity by Mikerin, Fisk or Campbell, but felt the
closed door meetings with Mr. Campbell and the contract with NexGen were strange.
Barry Keller
• Barry Keller was an executive with Westerman Companies and Worthington Industries in
Ohio. He was interviewed and stated that he first met Vadim Mikerin a couple of years
before 2010 and that he met Fisk around the same time. Fisk was close with Mikerin and
was typically with Mikerin when they met with Keller.
• Keller stated that Fisk was an intermediary and his consulting company was a paid
consultant by Westerman for contracts with TENEX. According to Keller, Mikerin
introduced Boris Rubizhevsky as the new consultant to act as the intermediary between
Westerman and TENEX in the same capacity that Fisk had worked previously.
• Keller stated that he sometimes emailed with Mikerin at Mikerin’s “Marvin Jodel” email
account, and Keller stated he believed that the email account belonged to another
TENAM employee.
• Keller met from time to time with “Daren” and Mark Lambert at TLI to obtain quotes for
transportation services, but Keller did not believe there were any contracts between
Westerman/Worthington and TLI. Keller did not know whether TLI paid consultants in
connection with TLI’s business with TENEX.
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• Keller denied any knowledge of any illegal schemes or activities and he denied
knowledge of Wiser Trading Ltd., Leila Global Ltd. and Ollins Development, Inc. (“Shell
Companies A, B and C in the Indictment).
Norman Kent
• Norman Kent was a TLI employee. In 2012, he worked with Mark Lambert to open a
cylinder wash facility in Kevil, Kentucky. Lambert was usually working in Kevil at the
time.
Wendy Lichtenberg
• Wendy Lichtenberg was a TLI employee. She stated that Lambert worked on a cylinder
wash project in 2013 or 2014 and traveled to the site to set it up.
• At some point after the FBI executed the search at TLI, Lambert spoke with Lichtenberg
and said he was unaware of the payments to Mikerin.
Vadim Mikerin
• Vadim Mikerin was a Russian official at TENEX and TENAM. Mikerin entered into a
plea agreement with the government and pleaded guilty to a one-count Information
charging him with a Section 371 conspiracy to commit money laundering. A copy of
Mikerin’s plea agreement is included with this production.
• During plea negotiations, Mikerin’s counsel explained that he would not inculpate
anybody who had not already pleaded guilty in connection with the investigation,
including Mark Lambert.
• A video copy of Mikerin’s pre-arrest, non-custodial interview on October 29, 2014 is
provided with your initial discovery. During the interview, Mikerin referred to TLI’s
corrupt payments to offshore accounts as “commissions,” and stated that it was not
TENEX policy for such payments to be made and TENEX was not aware of them. At
one point in the interview, Mikerin was asked about Mark Lambert and Mikerin would
not state that Lambert was complicit in the wiring of funds to shell accounts. Mikerin
stated that Lambert did sit in meetings with Condrey and Mikerin when the arrangements
for “commission” payments were discussed.
• On October 14, 2015, the government engaged with Mikerin’s counsel to schedule an
interview. During the conversation, Mikerin’s U.S. counsel suggested reasons that
Mikerin may not want to schedule another interview, and suggested that one reason was
that he believed he had pleaded guilty to a crime of which he thought he was innocent.
Mikerin’s counsel never moved to withdraw his guilty plea or otherwise suggested in
subsequent conversations that Mikerin believed he was innocent.
Tatiana Mikerina
• Tatiana Mikerina was the wife of Vadim Mikerin. She was interviewed and stated that
her husband Vadim Mikerin could not be involved in any wrongdoing.
Christopher Robinson
• Christopher Robinson was a TLI employee. He stated Mark Lambert set up the cylinder
wash facility in Kentucky.
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• According to Robinson, Daren Condrey and Wendy Lichtenberg would have known
about the remuneration clauses in the Japanese Sumitomo contracts. Lambert may have
known but Robinson was not sure why Lambert would have known.
Mike Rosso
• Mike Rosso was the CFO of TLI. Rosso denied any knowledge of illegal kickbacks at
TLI.
• According to Rosso, TLI paid “remuneration” to Japanese companies Sumitomo and
Mitsubishi, in addition to TENEX. The remuneration payments were not hidden and
Rosso first learned about them when he interviewed with Condrey and Lambert.
• The TLI “remuneration” or “commissions” with TENEX were primarily negotiated by
Daren Condrey, and Mark Lambert was also involved. Rosso believed that the
remuneration and commission payments were paid to Russia, though he was familiar that
they may have been made to other companies that he thought were associated with
TENEX.
• Rosso worked with Condrey on the TENEX remuneration payments. Rosso had asked
Lambert about them, and Lambert told Rosso to talk with Condrey. Condrey maintained
a spreadsheet on the remuneration payments for the TENEX contracts.
Boris Rubizhevsky
• Boris Rubizhevsky was a consultant to TENAM who pleaded guilty to a one-count
Information charging him with money laundering. Mr. Rubizhevsky’s plea agreement is
included with this production.
• According to Mr. Rubizhevsky, he met Mikerin over 20 years ago and kept up with him
in hopes of doing business with TENEX.
• Rubizhevsky met Fisk in approximately 2008 or 2009. Rubizhevsky stated that the
meeting occurred at a Nuclear Energy Institute conference in Miami, Florida.
Rubizhevsky stated that he may have met Fisk at least one other time.
• After Fisk died, Mikerin approached Rubizhevsky about taking over a contract that
TENEX had with Fisk that had approximately three months remaining. Mikerin
explained that the contract would give Rubizhevsky an opportunity to establish relations
with TENEX and would entail Rubizhevsky working with a company called Leila Global
Limited (“Shell Company B” in the Indictment). Rubizhevsky asked Mikerin whether
the Leila was one of those “Cyprus deals,” and Mikerin replied, “come on!”
• According to Rubizhevsky, Mikerin told him that Leila (“Shell Company B”) was a
legitimate company with a good relationship with Rosatom and TENEX, and
Rubizhevsky needed to do business with Leila if he wanted to do business with Rosatom
and TENEX. Rubizhevsky explained that TENAM was merely a facilitator between US
companies and TENEX.
• Rubizhevsky’s company “NexGen Security” ultimately entered into contracts with
TENAM, Westerman Companies and Leila. According to Rubizhevsky, he felt that the
contracts provided him an opportunity to prove himself to all three companies. However,
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he knew that the contracts were “shady,” and he never provided any real service other
than acting as a middleman to launder money, which he believed was intended to benefit
Mikerin and others. Rubizhevsky’s money laundering scheme included fraudulent
invoices. He laundered corrupt payments from Westerman to Leila, at the direction of
Mikerin. Rubizhevsky met with Westerman employees Barry Keller and Terry McGhee
one time in 2011 in Bremen, Ohio.
Charles Russell
• Former TENAM employee Charles Russell stated that he personally never observed
illegal activity while working at TENAM. He also stated that he was confident that FSB
officers had been placed within senior positions at TENEX.
• Russell also had familiarity with Rod “Frisk,” and stated that Frisk was a consultant who
helped establish TENAM’s office and was “always around.”
FBI Special Agent Timothy Taylor
• Special Agent Timothy Taylor testified before a Grand Jury on November 12, 2014,
which resulted in an indictment against Vadim Mikerin. During his testimony, Taylor
stated that evidence suggests that Fisk “corroborated” with Mikerin to establish TLI for
the purpose of handling the TENEX account and illegal activities that came out of that
relationship. Taylor also testified that as far back as TLI records at the time could show,
TLI had been kicking back 5-7% on all contracts with TENEX, and that documents
showed TLI principals had engaged in contracts concerning Wiser Trading (“Shell
Company A”) dating back to 2001. Special Agent Taylor testified that law enforcement
had traced close to $3 million in payments.
FBI Confidential Informant
• The FBI engaged a confidential informant (“CI”) in connection with a related
investigation involving Vadim Mikerin. The following information and statements
concerning the CI are derived from classified reporting that has been declassified and are
being provided to you at this time:
o The CI recorded a conversation with Daren Condrey and Mark Lambert on
August 14, 2014, a copy of which is enclosed.
o According to the CI, Mikerin engaged the CI and the CI’s company as a
consultant to TENEX, and Mikerin demanded the CI make corrupt kickback
payments to Mikerin and others, including through Wiser Trading Limited (“Shell
Company A”) in Cyprus and Leila Global Limited (“Shell Company B”) in
Latvia. The FBI authorized the CI to make certain kickback payments.
o According to the CI, Mikerin and another senior TENEX official, Sergey
Polgorodnik, made veiled threats multiple times to the CI to ensure that the CI
would make complete and timely kickback payments. Mikerin often mentioned
that the people involved were “serious” and “dangerous” and Polgorodnik asked
the CI in a very strict manner whether he could be trusted. The CI understood
that Mikerin and other senior TENEX officials were beneficiaries of the scheme
and that there may have been links to Russian organized crime.
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o According to the CI, Rod Fisk initially introduced the CI to Mikerin. The CI and
Fisk became good friends after they met, which the CI believed was as early as
2002 or as late as 2004-05. The CI believed that Fisk introduced the CI to
Mikerin because the CI would be able to help TENEX with long-term
representation in the United States.
o According to the CI, the CI’s company paid Fisk approximately $10,000/month as
a consulting fee for Fisk’s assistance with the CI’s contracts with TENEX.
Mikerin asked the CI to consider hiring Fisk as a consultant with some of the
money that the CI was paid by TENEX. The CI began paying the consulting fees
to Fisk in or around early 2010 and the CI claimed that he paid the fee even one
month after Fisk’s death. According to the CI, the CI never discussed the
kickback scheme with Fisk and “danced around” the topic with him.
o According to the CI, at one point Fisk persuaded the Department of Energy to
arrange meetings for the Russian nuclear industry inside South Africa.
o During a corrupt kickback payment of approximately $50,000 that the CI paid
Mikerin in cash on or about January 23, 2011, the CI explained that he had
possession of TLI branded notebook. The CI stated that Fisk frequently gave
blank TLI notebooks to the CI, which the CI liked to use.
o In a prepared statement in 2018, the CI stated that he had gathered evidence for
the FBI that proved that Fisk’s company TLI had been compromised by a bribery
and kickback scheme.
Jencks Act Material
The government recognizes its obligations under the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500 and
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 26.2. Jencks material will be provided to you consistent
with the government’s obligations. As you know, we are requesting reciprocal Jencks material
and request that you affirmatively represent that you have no Jencks material to produce if that is
the case.
Reciprocal Discovery
With this letter the government requests all reciprocal discovery to which it is entitled
under Rules 16(b) and 26.2 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The government also
requests notice of any intention of your client to rely upon an entrapment defense, a defense
involving mental condition or duress, and/or an alibi defense. Pursuant to Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 12.1, the dates, times, and places of the charged offenses are detailed within
the documents included within the discovery. Please contact me immediately if you believe that
this notice is insufficient.
As noted above, the enclosed materials and any future discovery provided to you that
may exceed the scope of discovery mandated by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure,
federal statute, or relevant case law are provided voluntarily and solely as a matter of discretion.
By producing such materials to you, the government reiterates that it does not waive its right to
object to any future discovery requests beyond the ambit of its legal obligations.
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As we get closer to trial, the government will provide you with access to our trial
exhibits. The government is compiling the exhibits from the larger pool of possible evidence.
You may consider the various specific items referenced herein to be among the likely exhibits at
trial.
Please let me know if you have any questions, encounter difficulties attempting to access
any of the material provided herein or in subsequent productions, or would like to further discuss
any of the matters raised above.
Respectfully,
_________________________
Ephraim Wernick
Assistant Chief
Criminal Division, Fraud Section
cc: David I. Salem and Michael T. Packard, AUSAs, U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland
Derek Ettinger, Trial Attorney, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section
Enclosure
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2 me what you know about this company now versus at the time this
4 part of the management structure when this was all going on, or
10 individuals.
3 matter.
6 they are convicted. So you're telling me that you know who was
7 involved and who wasn't involved, and none of the people who
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INDICTMENT
COUNT ONE
(Conspiracy to Violate the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act and to Commit Wire Fraud)
Introduction
Jury, was a United States company headquartered in Maryland, and thus a "domestic concern,"
as that term is used in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), Title 15, United States Code,
logistical support services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United
States and to foreign customers, including to and from the Russian Federation.
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United States and resident of Maryland. Defendant LAMBERT was an owner and executive of
2016. Defendant LAMBERT was also the co-President of Transportation Corporation A from
in or about January 2010 through in or about September 2016. Thus, defendant LAMBERT
was a "domestic concern" and an officer, employee, and agent of a "domestic concern," as those
terms are used in the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-2(h)(1).
3. Daren Condrey ("Condrey"), who has been charged separately, was a citizen of
the United States and resident of Maryland. Condrey was an owner and executive of
Transportation Corporation A from in or about August 1998 through in or about October 2014.
Condrey and defendant LAMBERT were also the co-Presidents of Transportation Corporation
A from in or about January 2010 through in or about October 2014. Thus, Condrey was a
"domestic concern" and an officer, employee and agent of a "domestic concern," as those terms
are used in the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-2(h)(1).
4. "Co-Conspirator One," a person whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was
Condrey from in or about 1998 to in or about December 2009, and a consultant to Transportation
services to nuclear power companies throughout the world on behalf of the government of the
Russian Federation. TENEX was indirectly owned and controlled by, and performed functions
of, the government of the Russian Federation, and thus was an "agency" and "instrumentality" of
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a foreign government, as those terms are used in the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Section
78dd-2(h)(2).
owned subsidiary of TENEX established in or about October 2010. TENAM was TENEX's
official representative office in the United States. TENAM was owned and controlled by, and
performed functions of, the government of the Russian Federation, and thus was an "agency" and
"instrumentality" of a foreign government, as those terms are used in the FCPA, Title 15, United
of TENEX from at least in or around 2004 through in or around 2011, and also was the President
of TENAM from in or around October 2010 through in or around October 2014. From in or
around 2011 through in or around October 2014, Mikerin was a resident of Maryland. Mikerin
was a "foreign official," as that term is used in the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Section
78dd-2(h)(2).
8. "Shell Company A," a company whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was a
shell company with a purported physical address in the Republic of Seychelles. Shell Company
A had bank accounts at financial institutions in Cyprus associated with a Russian national.
9. "Shell Company B," a company whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was a
shell company with a purported physical address in the United Kingdom. Shell Company B had
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10. "Shell Company C," a company whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was a
shell company with a purported physical address in the British Virgin Islands. Shell Company
C had bank accounts at financial institutions in Switzerland associated with a Russian national.
11. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 ("FCPA"), as amended, Title 15,
United States Code, Sections 78dd-1, et seq., was enacted by Congress for the purpose of, among
government official for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business for, or directing business
12. At some point in or before 2009, defendant LAMBERT and Condrey learned that
Co-Conspirator One had agreed with Mikerin to make corrupt bribe and kickback payments in
order for Transportation Corporation A to obtain and retain business and contracts with TENEX.
Co-Conspirator One explained that the amount of each corrupt payment was based on an
agreement with Mikerin to kickback a percentage of certain contract awards that TENEX
awarded to Transportation Corporation A to benefit Mikerin, and that Mikerin would help
Transportation Corporation A win contract awards with TENEX if such corrupt payments were
made. Soon after learning of the corrupt and fraudulent scheme, defendant LAMBERT and
Condrey agreed to enter into the conspiracy with Co-Conspirator One to make corrupt and
fraudulent bribe and kickback payments to offshore bank accounts to benefit Mikerin in order to
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13. In order to conceal and further the scheme, the co-conspirators, including
defendant LAMBERT and Condrey, used the terms "remuneration" and "commission" when
documenting the corrupt and fraudulent payments on an internal spreadsheet and when
payments to offshore accounts to benefit Mikerin, and to generate the money to make the
payments, defendant LAMBERT, Condrey and others, including Co-Conspirator One and
Transportation Corporation A and which fraudulently described services that were never
others, including Co-Conspirator One, caused Transportation Corporation A to make the corrupt
and fraudulent payments after Transportation Corporation A received the fraudulent invoices.
Conspirator One to communicate with Mikerin and facilitate the corrupt and fraudulent bribe and
kickback payments.
One's death and continuing through in or around October 2014, defendant LAMBERT and
Condrey continued the corrupt and fraudulent bribe and kickback scheme and communicated
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directly with Mikelin to obtain fraudulent invoices and facilitate the corrupt and fraudulent
payments.
The Conspiracy
17. From in or around 2004 and continuing through in or around October 2014, in the
MARK T. LAMBERT,
did knowingly and willfully, that is, with the intent to further the objects of the conspiracy,
combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with Condrey, Co-Conspirator One and others, known
authorization of the payment of any money, offer, gift, promise to give, and authorization of the
giving of anything of value, to a foreign official, and to a person, while knowing that all or a
portion of such money and thing of value would be and had been offered, given, and promised to
a foreign official, for purposes of: (i) influencing acts and decisions of such foreign official in his
or her official capacity; (ii) inducing such foreign official to do and omit to do acts in violation of
the lawful duty of such official; (iii) securing an improper advantage; and (iv) inducing such
foreign official to use his or her influence with a foreign government and agencies and
instrumentalities thereof to affect and influence acts and decisions of such government and
Conspirator One, Transportation Corporation A, and others in obtaining and retaining business
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for and with, and directing business to, Transportation Corporation A and others, in violation of
b. to knowingly and with the intent to defraud, devise, and intend to devise a
scheme and artifice to defraud, and for obtaining money and property by means of materially
false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, knowing that the pretenses,
representations, and promises were false and fraudulent when made, and did knowingly transmit
signs, signals, pictures, and sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice in
18. The manner and means by which defendant LAMBERT and others, including
Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, sought to accomplish the objects of the conspiracy included,
19. It was part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others, including
Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, offered to pay, promised to pay, and authorized corrupt and
fraudulent bribe and kickback payments for the benefit of Mikerin, in exchange for Mikerin's
agreement to help Transportation Corporation A secure business and contracts with TENEX.
20. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others,
including Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, discussed in person, and through, among other
means, electronic mail ("email") and text messaging, making corrupt and fraudulent bribe and
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21. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others,
including Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, concealed their scheme by using code words like
"lucky figure," "LF," "lucky numbers," "cake," "remuneration," and "commission" when
communicating about the corrupt and fraudulent bribe and kickback scheme.
22. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others,
including Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, emailed with Mikerin at Mikerin's personal email
address to discuss the corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback scheme, in order to evade
detection by other TENEX officials and others who were not benefiting from the scheme.
23. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others,
including Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, caused fraudulent invoices to be created and
transmitted by email to others in order to document purported services that were not actually
provided to Transportation Corporation A and to justify the payment of corrupt and fraudulent
24. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT, Condrey, and
Co-Conspirator One kept track of the corrupt bribe and kickback payments that had been made
and were pending, and they agreed with Mikerin that the amount of each corrupt and fraudulent
Transportation Corporation A.
25. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others,
including Condrey and Co-Conspirator One, concealed their corrupt and fraudulent bribe and
kickback payments in a manner that allowed those payments to go undetected by certain TENEX
officials and caused TENEX to overpay for Transportation Corporation A's services.
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26. It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant LAMBERT and others,
corrupt and fraudulent bribe and kickback payments from Transportation Corporation A's bank
account in Maryland to offshore bank accounts associated with companies that had no legitimate
Republic of Cyprus, Shell Company B in Latvia, and Shell Company C in Switzerland, for the
Overt Acts
In furtherance of the conspiracy, and to achieve the objects thereof, at least one of the
conspirators committed, and caused to be committed, in the District of Maryland and elsewhere,
Condrey from Mikerin's personal email address to provide inside information from TENEX to
assist Transportation Corporation A obtain a new contract award over "the other two
competitors," in exchange for additional corrupt bribe and kickback payments. In the email,
Mikerin requested, in relevant part, that defendant LAMBERT and Condrey "initiate from your
side new quotations for filled and empty cylinders transportation" for 2012 and 2013 and
email referenced in Paragraph A above, and defendant LAMBERT submitted a draft email for
Mikerin to review, which defendant LAMBERT intended to send to the TENEX senior official
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C. On or about September 23, 2011, after Mikerin approved the draft language
LAMBERT emailed the exact language and pricing terms that Mikerin approved to the senior
representative from Transportation Corporation A's bank to authorize the wire transfer of
Shell Company B bank account in Latvia, and defendant LAMBERT confirmed on the call that
the payment was in reference to "Invoice No. 35558, dated September 22, 2011."
pricing estimates for Transportation Corporation A to offer TENEX for 2011, 2012, and 2013,
and Condrey explained that "10% as TENEX Remuneration for each package" was built into the
G. On or about October 20, 2011, defendant LAMBERT emailed Condrey with new
pricing estimates for Transportation Corporation A to offer TENEX for 2011 — 2014, which also
Condrey from his personal email address, with the subject line, "news and lucky figure," and
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stated, in relevant part, ". . . with the understanding of the forthcoming end of Q4 and CY2011
please tell me what lucky figure will be when we should start our process (docs, etc.)."
I. On or about December 20, 2011, as a follow-up to the "news and lucky figure"
email referenced in Paragraph H above, Condrey replied to Mikerin at his personal email
address, copying defendant LAMBERT, "I am off from work today. . . . Just shoot me an email
with your proposal, or you can call Mark [LAMBERT] at the office as he is fully informed, and
and Condrey, in which Mikerin referenced the 'Lucky figures' being calculated for Q4 2011 . . .
[and] based on this the Invoice will be arranged just today and sent to you. [Y]our payment is
to be effected on [December] 23 in order to be ahead of the holiday season and to allow [Shell
Company B] to get the funds early next week. [I]f our Big Friend improves the issue some time
later and you are Ok with the results we will reestablish Lucky Figures for Q1 2012[.] I've just
got `Ok' to proceed with [Shell Company B] in the shortest possible time (hot market activities)
K. On or about December 21, 2011, Condrey sent an email to Mikerin at his personal
email address in response to the email referenced in Paragraph J above, copying defendant
LAMBERT, to "confirm and give the 'Green Light," and to request the invoice.
L. Later that day, on or about December 21, 2011, Mikerin emailed Condrey from
his personal email address. Mikerin attached a document to the email, which purported to be
TENEX "Invoice No. 35685" and was dated December 12, 2011. The document fraudulently
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described services that were never provided to Transportation Corporation A to justify a corrupt
representative from Transportation Corporation A's bank to authorize the wire transfer of
Shell Company B bank account in Latvia, and defendant LAMBERT confirmed on the call that
the payment was in reference to "Invoice No. 35685, dated December 12, 2011."
Condrey from his personal email account, and stated in relevant part, "Hello Daren [Condrey]
and Mark [LAMBERT], Thank you both for your visit [to] our 'noisy' location on Monday and
energetic lunch together. . . . Also a channel for 'lucky figures' process has been checked and
confirmed (no changes), so you will get an invoice for the amount M48,089.30 tomorrow.
Would you please to confirm that it'll be done before the end of the month of Q1 or early next
week[?]"
P. On or about March 28, 2012, Mikerin emailed Condrey from his personal email
account and attached a document, which purported to be TENEX "Invoice No. 1547-12." The
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representative from Transportation Corporation A's bank to authorize the wire transfer of
Shell Company B bank account in Latvia, and defendant LAMBERT confirmed on the call that
the payment was in reference to "Invoice No. 1547-12, dated March 28, 2012."
stating in part, "I never thought [a senior official at TENEX] was our friend — which is strange
given the situation with Vadim [Mikerin] and his lucky numbers."
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Invoice No. 13-104, dated March 27, 2013, to be sent by private mail courier to TENEX in
X. On or about April 2, 2013, Mikerin emailed Condrey from his personal email
address, with the subject line "Figures," and stated, "[p]lease advise when Q1 `LF' can be done
email referenced in Paragraph X above, and attached a draft of an internal spreadsheet that
documented Transportation Corporation A's contracts with TENEX and the corrupt and
fraudulent bribe and kickback payments that Transportation Corporation A owed TENEX under
the colurrut "7% Remun." Condrey stated, "See attached. If we receive payment of 13-104
[the invoice referenced in Paragraph W above] by April 26 (when due) then we may be able to
arrange full amount by end of April." Condrey explained that Transportation Corporation A
could make a corrupt payment without the kickback associated with Invoice No. 13-104 at that
time, or Transportation Corporation A could wait until TENEX paid amount invoiced in 13-104,
at which point Transportation Corporation A would be in a position to make the full corrupt
payment.
Z. On or about April 28, 2013, after TENEX had remitted payment to Transportation
Corporation A for Invoice No. 13-104, Mikerin emailed Condrey from his personal email
address, stating, "Please find the due Invoice. Please not[e] that the previous file was provided
with the NEW INSTRUCTIONS where to go ([Shell Company C] instead of [Shell Company
B]). . ." Mikerin attached a document that purported to be TENEX "Invoice No. 1368-04,"
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which was dated April 25, 2013 and fraudulently described services that were never provided to
$25,774.
Corporation A's bank to wire transfer approximately $25,774 from Transportation Corporation
Corporation A's bank account in Maryland to a Shell Company B bank account in Latvia.
DD. On or about July 11, 2013, Transportation Corporation A made a wire transfer
relevant part, ". . . please advise me (based on our short business meeting with Daren [Condrey]
last Tue.) how quick we can proceed with our "LF" matter, possible by the end of this week?
As agreed with Daren [Condrey] I sent an e-mail (with a doc enclosed) on Mon. [August 26,
Corporation A's bank to wire transfer approximately $94,102 from Transportation Corporation
GG. On or about August 30, 2013, Transportation Corporation A made a wire transfer
HH. On or about October 17, 2013, defendant LAMBERT and Condrey sent the
following messages to one another from defendant LAMBERT's personal email address to
Condrey's phone:
Condrey: They are part of group. [Other Tenex officials] not so much. My
guess.
LAMBERT: Yeah. Hard to tell. Sure [that one of the other TENEX officials] is
not.
Condrey: Yep.
JJ. On or about March 28, 2014, Transportation Corporation A made a wire transfer
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2. On or about the dates set forth below, in the District of Maryland and elsewhere,
the defendant,
MARK T. LAMBERT,
who was a domestic concern and an officer, employee, and agent of a domestic concern within
the meaning of the FCPA, willfully made use of, and aided, abetted, and caused others to make
use of, the mails and means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance
of an offer, payment, promise to pay, and authorization of the payment of any money, offer, gift,
promise to give, and authorization of the giving of anything of value to any foreign official, and
to any person, while knowing that the money and thing of value will be offered, given, and
promised, directly and indirectly, to any foreign official for the purposes of: (i) influencing acts
and decisions of such foreign official in his official capacity; (ii) inducing such foreign official to
do and omit to do acts in violation of the lawful duty of such official; (iii) securing an improper
advantage; and (iv) inducing such foreign official to use his influence with a foreign government
and instrumentalities thereof to affect and influence acts and decisions of such government and
Transportation Corporation A, in obtaining and retaining business for and with, and directing
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1. Paragraphs 1 through 10, 12 through 16, and 18 through 26 and Overt Acts A
MARK T. LAMBERT,
devised and intended to devise a scheme to defraud TENEX, and to obtain money and property
3. On or about each of the dates set forth below, in the District of Maryland and
elsewhere, defendant LAMBERT and others, including Condrey and Mikerin, for the purpose of
executing the scheme described above, and attempting to do so, did knowingly and with the
intent to defraud, devise, and intend to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud TENEX, and for
obtaining money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses,
representations, and promises, knowing that the pretenses, representations, and promises were
false and fraudulent when made, and did knowingly transmit and cause to be transmitted, by
means of wire communication in interstate commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and
sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, as follows:
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COUNT ELEVEN
(Money Laundering)
The Grand Jury for the District of Maryland further charges that:
2. On or about the dates set forth below, in the District of Maryland and elsewhere,
defendant,
MARK T. LAMBERT,
did knowingly transfer and attempt to transfer funds, that is wire transfers of U.S. currency in the
following amounts, from a place in the United States, that is the District of Maryland, to a place
outside the United States, that is Switzerland, as set forth below, with the intent to promote the
carrying on of specified unlawful activity, that is, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act, Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-2; and violations of the wire fraud statute, Title
18, United States Code, Section 1343; to wit, a wire transfer on May 6, 2013 of approximately
$25,774 from Transportation Corporation A's bank account in Maryland to a Shell Company C
18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A)
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FORFEITURE ALLEGATION
The Grand Jury for the District of Maryland further finds that:
1. Pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.2, notice is hereby given to the defendant that the
United States will seek forfeiture as part of any sentence in accordance with Title 18, United
States Code, Sections 981(a)(1)(C) and 982(a)(1), and Title 28, United States Code, Section
2461(c), in the event of the defendant's convictions of the offenses in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 371, 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-2, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 1956(a)(2)(A), and 18 U.S.C. § 2, as set forth
MARK T. LAMBERT,
shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived
3. As a result of the offenses charged in Counts One, Nine, and Ten of this
MARK T. LAMBERT,
shall forfeit to the United States (1) any and all property obtained directly or indirectly as a result
of any such violation, (2) any and all property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part
to commit and to facilitate the commission of any such violation charged in this Indictment; and
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any property, real or personal, which was involved in such an offense or was traceable to such an
offense.
Substitute Assets
4. If any of the property described above in paragraphs 2 and 3 above as being subject
without difficulty;
it is the intent of the United States of America, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section
982(b) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), incorporating Title 21, United States
Code, Section 853, to seek forfeiture of any other property of said defendant.
A TRUE BILL:
SIGNATURE REDACTED Date: January 10, 2017
Fcifjperson
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that have been cleared for production by a filter team and is being made in accordance with the
agreed TIFF protocol to facilitate your review of the documents. We understand that
approximately 11,003 documents are currently undergoing a filter review and we will produce
the remaining non-privileged documents from this data set to you as they are released by the
filter team. Please note that one document, DOJ-0002747026, was an attachment to an email,
and was flagged as containing a virus during electronic file processing. While some metadata
from this document was captured, the suspected file was removed from the data set that is being
produced to you.
The government also is providing you with additional information from witness
statements to the government or that were relayed to the government by TLI as part of the
company’s internal investigation. Please note that, as with previous disclosures, this discovery
includes early disclosure of material that is not required to be made under the rules and do not
necessarily relate to the charges against your client. The fact that the government is providing
this discovery to you does not constitute an acknowledgment or admission on the government’s
part that such materials are admissible or relevant to the charges against your client, nor does the
disclosure indicate that such materials constitute Brady, Giglio or impeachment material. In
addition, the disclosure of otherwise non-discoverable information or material at this time does
not confer any substantive rights upon the defense nor does it obligate the government to provide
other non-discoverable material to you.
Carol Condrey: Among other things, we understand that Carol Condrey stated the following in
sum and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Daren Condrey usually provided Tenex invoices to Carol for payment;
• Daren Condrey kept track of Tenex remuneration on his worksheet;
• Rod Fisk was TLI’s contact person for Tenex; and
• Some wire requests were in her handwriting.
Sergei Danilenko: Among other things, we understand that Sergei Danilenko stated the
following in sum and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Danilenko believed that TLI won bids from Tenex because TLI was the most
competitive, and sometimes the only, company competing for certain bids from Tenex;
• Daren Condrey probably approved the remuneration payments because it was a program
that he inherited from Rod Fisk; and
• He could not imagine that Vadim Mikerin had any influence on Tenex contract awards.
Tiffany Eaton: Among other things, we understand that Tiffany Eaton stated the following in
sum and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Daren Condrey was the person at TLI who usually dealt with Tenex;
• Daren Condrey was very protective of the Tenex contracts; and
• She understood that remuneration was paid on both Japanese and Russian contracts.
Jack Edlow: Among other things, Jack Edlow stated the following in sum and substance during
an interview by FBI and DOE-OIG law enforcement agents:
• Edlow met with Vadim Mikerin on or about February 12, 2014. During the meeting,
Edlow offered Mikerin the opportunity to partner with Edlow International. Mikerin was
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receptive, but stated that Tenam had nothing to do with the transportation of nuclear
materials. Mikerin also complained that he only had a few contracts to handle, and that
the majority of contracts were made by Tenex around him.
Lauren Haas: Among other things, we understand that Lauren Haas stated the following in sum
and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Daren Condrey dealt more with contracts and customers than Mark Lambert; and
• Carol Condrey was in charge of wiring funds and making sure invoices were paid.
Haas also told law enforcement agents during her interview on March 23, 2016, that Tonia
Lambert had told her that Daren Condrey positioned things to incriminate Mark Lambert because
Daren Condrey wants to clear himself.
Wendy Lichtenberg: Among other things, we understand that Wendy Lichtenberg stated the
following in sum and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Daren Condrey was the only person who handled the Tenex contracts;
• She did not know that Tenex received remuneration until approximately mid-2014 when
she started getting Tenex contracts; and
• Vadim Mikerin usually interacted with Daren Condrey.
Mallery McCarthy: Among other things, we understand that Mallery McCarthy stated the
following in sum and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Tenex mail was generally addressed to Daren Condrey and when Vadim Mikerin called
TLI, he would usually ask to speak to Daren Condrey.
Vadim Mikerin: In addition to what was previously disclosed concerning statements by Vadim
Mikerin, Mikerin made the following statements in sum and substance during an interview with
law enforcement on April 3, 2018:
• In 2003 or 2004, when Mikerin initiated his business dealings with TLI, his primary point
of contact was Rod Fisk who Mikerin said was a trusted friend who provided professional
guidance.
• Mikerin met Fisk in or around 1996, and it was around this time that Fisk came to
Mikerin with the idea for the “Lucky Fund,” or “LF,” which Mikerin claimed was a way
to make free money from business dealings that could be invested. Mikerin stated that
Fisk would invest the funds and Mikerin could draw on it eventually. When asked about
his previous statement that the LF money would be “spread between friends,” Mikerin
explained that he was only referring to Fisk.
• Mikerin stated that Fisk tasked Mikerin with finding the offshore accounts. Mikerin
stated that he had never seen any of the LF money after it was sent to the offshore
accounts. Mikerin stated that the LF fund was not his money but he was hopeful that it
would find its way back to him.
• Mikerin stated that he found “Wiser Trading,” “Ollins Development,” and Leila Global”
from Friday newspaper advertisements for money transfer services, which he described
as “legitimate brokers.” Mikerin noticed that the email address as@aha.ru, an email
address listed for M-Solutions was also an email associated with his acquaintance,
Alexey Sarul, and an email address that belonged to an administrator of the system. He
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explained that Sarul helped with administrative matters when money sometimes got stuck
in the system.
Chris Robinson: Among other things, we understand that Chris Robinson stated the following in
sum and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Daren Condrey generally handled any contractual issues. Daren kept the contracts from
everyone else at TLI, and did not disclose them to TLI operations personnel until
approximately May 2014; and
• Chris Robinson drafted Tenex invoices based on the contracts and he gave them to Daren
Condrey to send to Tenex. All Tenex communications and invoices went to Daren
Condrey and Carol Condrey handled the wires. Daren Condrey was the main point of
contact for Tenex and he did not think that Mark Lambert had much involvement with
Tenex.
Alex Rogers: Among other things, we understand that Alex Rogers stated the following in sum
and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• Daren Condrey dealt with Tenex far more than Mark Lambert, he was not sure whether
Mark Lambert ever dealt with Tenex;
• Mark Lambert was focusing on the new cylinder wash business; and
• Remuneration payments did not raise a red flag for Rogers, as TLI had several
remuneration agreements with different customers.
Mike Rosso: Among other things, we understand that Mike Rosso stated the following in sum
and substance to TLI outside counsel:
• He never saw the Tenex contracts and Daren Condrey kept them close to his vest;
• When Tenex would call Daren Condrey to ask for the remuneration payments, Condrey
would verify the amount and Carol Condrey would make the payment;
• Daren Condrey was the person at TLI who usually dealt with foreign customers;
• Rosso said that he could have first learned about “remuneration” from Wendy
Lichtenberg, in addition to Daren Condrey and Mark Lambert; and
• Carol Condrey was more experienced with foreign wire transfers so Rosso let Carol
Condrey handle them.
Please note that we understand TLI’s external counsel showed certain documents to your client,
as well as Carol Condrey and Sergei Danilenko during their interviews. Our understanding is
that those documents have already been produced to you and can be located within the following
production ranges: DOJ-0000063229 – 0000063231 and DOJ-0000064122 – 0000064221.
Attached with this production is an updated master index and electronic index, which
includes entries for documents being produced with this production and additional specificity in
the description fields for the subcategories of documents in the second and fourth productions.
Please also let us know if you have any questions or would like to discuss this further.
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Criminal Division
Counsel:
Discovery Production
Enclosed please find one thumb drive with documents obtained during the course of the
investigation and an updated index. The thumb drive includes the following documents:
• Materials from the seizure of an offsite TLI server in 2014 of five email accounts that
have recently been released from a privilege review (DOJ-0002998401 -DOJ-
0003011445);
• Bank Ce1iifications for Sandy Spring Bank returns for accounts ending in 2901 and
1501 (DOJ-0003011446 -DOJ-0003011451);
• Google certificate of authenticity of business records for Rod Fisk’s Gmail account at
Rfiskster@gmail.com (DOJ-0003011456 – DOJ-0003011458)
Attached also is an updated Master Index. Please note the following edits have been
made to previous entries:
• The identifying descriptions for 2.007 and 4.007 have been corrected to remove the
term “voluntary production” since those items were recovered as part of the search at
TLI.
• The entity/individual fields for 2.020 and 4.020 have been corrected to read
“TLI/Lambert” and not “Tenam/Mikerin.”
• The identifying information for 2.011, 2.012, 4.011, and 4.012 has been changed in
the description fields to indicate that the items were retrieved from the “safe” in
Mikerin’s office at Tenam, which was identified as “Room D.”
• The identifying information for 2.023 and 4.023 has been corrected to indicate that
the items were recovered from Tenam “Room C.”
• The identifying information for 2.024 has been corrected to indicate that the items
were recovered from Tenam “Room B.”
• The identifying information for 2.025, 2.026. 4.025 and 4.026 has been corrected to
indicate that the items were recovered from Tenam “Room F.”
• The identifying information for 2.032 and 4.032 has been corrected to indicate that
the item that was seized had a total capacity of 16GB, not 60 GB, and was recovered
from Tenam “Room F.”
• The identifying information for 2.036 and 4.036 has been corrected to indicate that
the item was seized from Mikerin’s residence, not Tenam.
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Additional Disclosures
The government also is providing you with additional information concerning witness
statements. As with previous disclosures, this discovery includes early disclosure of material
that is not required to be made under the rules and do not necessarily relate to the charges against
your client. The fact that the government is providing this discovery to you does not constitute
an acknowledgment or admission on the government’s part that such materials are admissible or
relevant to the charges against your client, nor does the disclosure necessarily indicate that such
materials constitute Brady, Giglio or impeachment material. In addition, the disclosure of
otherwise non-discoverable information or material at this time does not confer any substantive
rights upon the defense nor does it obligate the government to provide other non-discoverable
material to you.
• Carol Condrey: On January 10, 2019, DOE-OIG Special Agent David Gadren and
FBI Special Agent Leon Leontyev interviewed Carol Condrey subject to a proffer
agreement, in the presence of counsel for the government and Mrs. Condrey. During
the interview, Mrs. Condrey stated that, at the beginning, Rodney Fisk was the only
conduit between TLI and Tenex, but when Mr. Fisk departed, this became Mark
Lambert’s and Daren Condrey’s responsibility. Carol Condrey also explained that
Mr. Fisk and Vadim Mikerin were close and that Mr. Fisk always seemed to want to
control Tenex’s business even after Mr. Fisk retired from TLI in 2010 and through his
death in 2011.
• Claus Karepin: On May 21, 2018, DOE-OIG Special Agent David Gadren and FBI
Special Agent Mike Peters interviewed Daher CFO Claus Karepin in the presence of
counsel for the government and TLI outside counsel. When asked about
“remuneration,” Mr. Karepin stated that he was under the impression, having spoken
to Mark Lambert and Daren Condrey previously, that TLI had contracts with various
customers that had a rebate clause. He stated that he heard about this practice from
Daren Condrey or Carol Condrey. He also stated that it was a standard term in the
industry and that he recalled a conversation where he learned about it from Daren
Condrey while visiting TLI at some point before 2014. He also stated that Mr.
Condrey was responsible for TLI’s contract with TENEX.
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make the payment on his own. In 2007, NCS approached Mr. Ravenscroft about
ousting Mr. Fisk from TLI and Mr. Ravenscroft approached Daren Condrey to try to
get support for the removal of Mr. Fisk, but Mr. Condrey would not agree to Mr.
Fisk’s ouster. Mr. Ravenscroft said that he felt as if Mr. Fisk was starting a company
within TLI to transport spent fuel.
• TLI Search Warrant: Unsourced notes from the search and seizure at TLI on October
29, 2014 indicates that at approximately 7:08pm, Mark Lambert departed after
providing assistance. We understand that after his interview, Mr. Lambert directed
agents to relevant areas where evidence could be found.
Discovery Update
The government also has identified a blackberry that was in the possession of Vadim
Mikerin when he was arrested. As we explained, that blackberry was password protected and
never could be opened by the government, but we still have the blackberry itself.
We also explained that we had received a laptop from Bill Moore in response to an early
subpoena. In addition, prior to Daren Condrey entering into a plea agreement with the
government, we understand that he provided a laptop to TLI in response to a subpoena to TLI.
Mr. Condrey’s laptop was imaged by TLI and TLI produced a copy of that image to the
government. That image was corrupted and could not be loaded, and TLI produced another
image to the government in mid-2015 that was not able to loaded, as well. In response to your
requests, we obtained a duplicate image from TLI. We are in the process of processing both
items for production or relevant materials.
Also, we would like to recap what we shared with you about FBI Staff Operations
Specialist Josh Gentry’s conversation with your client during a visit with his wife to Dragon
Distillery on or about October 8, 2016. SOS Gentry explained that during a tour of the distillery,
Mr. Lambert identified himself as a former Naval officer who worked with radios and
electronics, which SOS Gentry understood to mean signals intelligence. Mr. Lambert also
explained that he later worked in the nuclear industry and was involved in nuclear shipping at a
company called TLI. Agent Gentry did not solicit this information nor did he recognize that Mr.
Lambert was the same person who was under investigation by the FBI and DOE at the time.
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Pursuant to the Court’s Memorandum Order, dated February 27, 2019 [ECF 48],
enclosed herein are lists that identify for you by Bates number (the relevant “PROD BEGDOC”
number): (1) “all fraudulent invoices produced in furtherance of the wire fraud and conspiracy to
commit wire fraud charges,” (2) “all written communications constituting false or fraudulent
statements by Lambert relating to the wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges,”
and (3) “all contracts allegedly obtained through, and all wire transfer receipts reflecting
kickback payments made in furtherance of, the wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud charges. As
you should know from your review of the database, there are multiple duplicates of these
materials that were captured from different sources and have been produced to you during
discovery. The government is disclosing one Bates-stamped version to identify each of the
relevant records, but the government reserves the right to introduce duplicate versions of such
materials at trial.
With respect to the first (1) category of invoices, we have identified both: (a) the inflated
TLI invoices that your client caused to be sent to TENEX during the relevant time frame, each of
which had corrupt bribe and kickback payments built-in to the invoiced payments to TENEX,
and (b) the fake “TENEX” invoices that your client and TLI knowingly received to conceal and
further the scheme. You can find the fake TENEX invoice specifically referenced in Count 9 of
the Indictment (“TENEX Invoice No. 35685”) at DOJ-0000043392, among other places in the
government’s production. You can find TLI Invoice No. 13-104, which was referenced in Count
10 of the Indictment at DOJ-0000042378, among other places in the government’s production.
With respect to the second (2) category of written communications, we have identified
the emails authored “by Lambert” that specifically and directly relate to the wire fraud and
conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges (though they also constitute evidence in support of the
other charges, as well). This notably does not include other written communications which your
client received or otherwise caused to be made in furtherance of the scheme, and it also does not
include routine business communications that were generally in furtherance of the scheme as
such a reading would include almost all Tenex/Tenam-related communications by your client.
Broadly speaking, your client’s statements to law enforcement on October 29, 2014, and all
emails, written statements and other documents he drafted concerning TLI’s business with
TENEX or TENAM could be construed as relating to the fraudulent conspiracy and scheme.
Finally, with respect to the third (3) categories of (a) contracts and (b) wire transfer
receipts, we have identified those contracts and addenda that were obtained through the
fraudulent scheme and also the actual “receipts” from relevant wire transfers. For ease of
reference, the contracts are highlighted in blue and the addenda are not highlighted. Not all of
the relevant contracts and addenda in the government’s possession are fully executed or
complete. With respect to the wire transfer “receipts,” we also are directing you, as a courtesy,
to additional supporting materials and note that further evidence can be found within the bank
statements from Sandy Spring Bank (DOJ-0000049292 – DOJ-0000058243; DOJ-0002733269 –
DOJ-0002733606), and the MLAT returns for Cypriot banks Alpha Bank (DOJ-0002452349 –
DOJ-0002454019) and Eurobank (DOJ-0002454020 – DOJ-0002459034); Latvian bank ABLV
(DOJ-0000048474 – DOJ-0000048478; DOJ-0000048499 – DOJ-0000048503; DOJ-
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As an initial matter, the government rejects the characterization that the government
“correctly noted” that certain prior disclosures constitute Brady or Giglio material. We have
acknowledged your extraordinarily broad discovery requests and attempted to comply with many
of them, even if they ultimately may not be relevant and quite clearly would be objectionable and
lead to inadmissible material and information at trial. Indeed, as the government explained in
our February 2, 2018 discovery letter, “this discovery includes early disclosure of material that is
not required under the rules and discovery of other matters that have been under investigation
that do not have a direct relationship to the charges against your client. The fact that the
government is providing such discovery does not constitute an acknowledgement or admission
on the government’s part that such materials are admissible or relevant to the charges against
your client nor does the disclosure indicate that such materials constitute Brady, Giglio or
impeachment material.”
In contrast to the specific request above, you also made an extraordinarily broad request
for “all documents and materials reflecting the information that you have identified as Brady
and/or Giglio material in your February 2, 2018 letter, including all documents and FBI 302s
reflecting the statements of” 17 individuals. As noted above, the government never identified
such materials as Brady or Giglio material, but the government nevertheless took an expansive
view of the materials and information, and explained that the summarized information could be
used to show your client’s coconspirators’ and Vadim Mikerin’s involvement in the criminal
scheme. However, the government is not obligated to provide you with more information than
what has been provided, and certainly there is no requirement that the government produce “all
documents and materials reflecting the information” or “all documents and FBI 302s reflecting
the statements.”
In your letter, you also made an overbroad request for “additional materials, including
documents and audio and/or video recordings, relating to improper or illicit payments or requests
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for payments, by and to Mr. Mikerin, Tenex, Tenam and/or any individuals associated with
them,” which is well beyond the scope of the case and the charged offenses against your client.
We have produced voluminous discovery and information relating to the charged offenses
against your client, and the government even provided you with certain information concerning a
FBI confidential informant to the extent that it could possibly be relevant to any of your client’s
coconspirators or arguably be helpful to your defense.
III. Emails
As explained during our March 6, 2019 call, we have produced all of the emails that were
seized and obtained during the investigation and that are associated with Mr. Mikerin and Mr.
Fisk in connection with the charged offense. The government is under no blanket obligation to
provide you with additional email addresses for Mr. Fisk, Mr. Mikerin, Mr. Condrey or Mrs.
Condrey to the extent such emails exist.
The government is not obligated to provide you with names of specific agents who were
involved in the investigation. However, in response to your request, the government will provide
you with the names of the following agents who participated in the following interviews that are
relevant to the charges against your client:
• FBI Special Agents Daryl Anderson and Timothy Taylor met with Deborah Payne
Fisk in October 2011.
• FBI Special Agent Timothy Taylor and DOE-OIG Special Agent David Gadren
participated in interviews of Vadim Mikerin.
• FBI Special Agent Timothy Taylor and DOE-OIG Special Agent David Gadren
participated in interviews of Daren Condrey.
• FBI Special Agents Lynn Raymundo, Gary Stark, Michael Saar, Leon Leontyev and
DOE-OIG Special Agents Rebecca Freund and David Gadren participated in
interviews of Carol Condrey.
• FBI Special Agents Jack Peterson and Brendan Bowers participated in the interview
of Mark Lambert. Other agents, including FBI Special Agent Robert Keller, heard
Mr. Lambert make statements during the search of TLI, including “They will want to
see 1000%,” when referencing a file in a Tenex drawer with a folder entitled
“TENEX Remuneration 2008/2010.”
The government will identify agents and other witnesses when it produces the witness list
in advance of trial.
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V. Interview Notes
Agent notes will be provided in accordance with the government’s discovery obligations.
The government has produced all of the jail calls of Vadim Mikerin that are in our
possession. The government is not obligated to translate, let alone produce, translated transcripts
from this voluminous material.
As explained on March 6, 2019 and detailed above, Daren Condrey produced a laptop to
TLI outside counsel prior to his entering into a plea agreement with the government. TLI then
produced corrupted hard drives that could not be uploaded. In response to your repeated requests
for this material, the government sought an additional image of the laptop from TLI, which is
being reviewed for responsiveness and any arguably relevant material will be produced to you.
All other arguably relevant disclosures concerning “personal devices” have already been
provided to you.
This request is overbroad and vague. If you specify which redacted court documents you
seek to have unredacted and provide us with the pertinent justification, we can then meaningfully
engage on this topic.
This request is overbroad and vague. If you specify which redacted search warrant and
arrest documents you seek to have unredacted and provide us with the pertinent justification we
can then meaningfully engage on this topic.
Please let us know if you have any questions, encounter difficulties attempting to access
any of the material provided herein or in subsequent productions, or would like to discuss this
further.
Respectfully,