For decades, Wayne Simmons told the world he was a CIA man. And he benefited from the connection: It helped him talk his way out of an assault charge. It helped him get contracting work. It allowed him to knock more than $400,000 off a delinquent tax bill. And it helped him get on cable news as a pundit and commentator.
But it was all, in the words of U.S. Senior Judge T.S. Ellis III, "buffalo chips."
Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Friday on multiple fraud charges, as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm....
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