Ex-FBI agent pleads guilty in tax evasion

A retired FBI agent has pleaded guilty to evading about $109,000 in personal income taxes.

Jan Lindsey, 67, of Henderson pleaded guilty Friday to felony tax evasion. U.S. District Judge James Mahan is scheduled to sentence him July 9.

According to his plea agreement, Lindsey worked as an FBI agent for 26 years and retired from the agency in 1995. For the next 10 years, Lindsey worked for the FBI as a contractor performing background investigations.

In 1999, Lindsey started using illegal tax avoidance methods to file his and his wife's joint tax returns. He failed to file or pay federal income tax for the years 1999 through 2006 and committed acts that were designed to hide his income and assets from the Internal Revenue Service.

Lindsey was arrested with three others in March 2009 following a three-year investigation by the Nevada Joint Terrorism Task Force into allegations of money laundering, tax evasion and possession of unregistered machine guns.