On April 2, 2025, a former BOP Material Handler Supervisor assigned to the Federal Correctional Institution Florence (FCI Florence) in Colorado, pleaded guilty to one count of introduction of contraband. Nicholaus Valentine pleaded guilty in the District of Colorado. According to the stipulation of facts in support of the plea agreement, from on or about December 6, 2021, and on or about March 3, 2022, Valentine received monetary payments from inmates in exchange for smuggling cigarettes into the prison and providing them to inmates. The investigation is being conducted by the OIG's Tucson Office; forensic accounting assistance was provided by the OIG's Fraud Detection Office.
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