Former FOX commentator and “terror analyst,” Wayne Simmons, has been charged with major fraud against the US, making false statements, and wire fraud. Despite the fact FOX portrayed Simmons as an expert, a spokesperson for the opinion network refused to comment claiming Simmons “was never a commentator or contributor” because their network didn’t pay him.
According to the New York Times, former CIA officer and intelligence contractor, Kent Clizbe, began investigating Simmons after meeting him at a lunch arranged by a mutual friend in the fall of 2010. Simmons apparently boasted of a fabulous career (a little too fabulous, as far as Clizbe was concerned) that he claims began in 1973 when he was recruited to the CIA after joining the US Navy.
Simmons continued on with an impressive account of spearheading a “deep cover intel ops” while part of an “outside paramilitary special operations group,” but Clizbe, being a CIA agent himself, had never heard of an outside paramilitary special operations group before, and after digging further, he began to uncover numerous other discrepancies as well, such as Simmons’ boast that part of their operation involved focusing on counterfeiters—the CIA doesn’t fight counterfeiters, that’s left to the Secret Service.
After digging further, Clizbe eventually found that rather than fighting some of the most dangerous counterfeiters, terrorists, and drug smugglers in the world, Simmons “worked as a headwaiter at Pisces, a nightclub in Georgetown, and as a manager for Making Waves, an adult-entertainment hot-tub complex in College Park, Md.” In 1980, Simmons shot at three men in a nightclub parking lot during an argument, and pled guilty to assault and transporting a firearm. He received probation.
Clizbe found that in 1983, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI received a tip that Simmons was looking for large quantities of Uzis, grenades, and surface-to-air missiles, and while under investigation for this, the local County Police were also investigating him for a bookmaking operation he ran out of his small house. Authorities eventually conducted a raid and found gambling paraphernalia, an old handgun and a rifle, as well as a safe that contained “evidence of large-scale narcotics activity.”
Simmons received 5 years’ probation at that time, and never faced any drug charges. While he has tried to maintain over the years that this proves he was working for the CIA, Clizbe thinks it’s more likely he was an informant, and the drug charges were probably dropped in return for some form of cooperation. Simmons claims the reason the CIA has no records of him is that the program he was part of was “so black it made the black hole seem white.”
So how did this informant con his way into the Pentagon public-relations program and the media? His family’s reputation; his father was in the Navy, his mother the FBI, and his sister held a multitude of high ranking positions in the Defense Department and the Department of the Navy. She was also married to a former admiral.
Clizbe realized that Simmons was the black sheep of a distinguished family that no one took the time to question or research. For two more years afterwards, he continued to watch Simmons rise to fame, especially after publishing his novel, “The Natanz Directive,” in which Simmons claimed to single-handedly dismantle Iran’s nuclear program. George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Defense (and war criminal), Donald Rumsfeld, was quoted as saying, “Wayne Simmons doesn’t just write it. He’s lived it.”
After a few more years of struggle, Clizbe finally submitted his findings to a former senior official at the CIA, having no idea if anything would come of it. In October of 2015, the FBI issued an arrest warrant for Simmons at his property.
“Wayne Simmons is a fraud. Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained through his fraud,” stated US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Dana J. Boente.
Wayne Simmons was sentenced to 33-months in prison on the 15th of this month. He blames Obama.
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