DEA agent worked for Galante

A former special agent with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency pleaded guilty to one count of improperly accessing a government computer at the request an unidentified person associated with the waste-hauling industry in western Connecticut.

Louis Angioletti, 36, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court in New Haven Aug. 23 to the misdemeanor charge stemming from the government”™s investigation into the Danbury carting businesses of James Galante. Angioletti faces up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000 when he is sentenced Nov. 9. He has resigned from the DEA and agreed not to seek re-employment with the agency as part of the plea bargain.

According to prosecutors, in 2004 unnamed individuals in Galante”™s carting businesses suspected they were being investigated by law enforcement officials and asked Angioletti to access a government data base to see if an individual”™s name appeared. It did not, and Angioletti advised the person of the results, prosecutors said.

He was among 33 individuals indicted following a federal investigation of Galante”™s trash hauling businesses. All but seven had accepted plea bargains.