Regional FBI head warns of sequestration cuts
The special agent in charge for the FBI’s Boston field office told reporters in Portland Monday that the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration will force the investigatory agency to do more with less.
The Portland Press Herald reported the FBI will receive a total of $700 million in cuts. Vincent B. Lisi, the special agent in charge of the regional office covering Maine, did not say which operations might be scaled back as a result, but did say that the agency is exploring incentives for early retirement to meet the sequestration cutbacks. In Maine, he said, one pending retirement will not be filled, and he doesn’t expect the agency to hire for another two years.
In the past year, some of the bureau’s 13 investigators have helped look into an explosion in the number of pharmacy robberies and remain focused on white collar crime like financial fraud and health care fraud.
Lisi has been in charge of the regional agency for three months.
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