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Cohen uses government issue cell phone to sell items on eBay

In his spare time as federal fisheries police agent in charge of the Northeast region, Andrew Cohen also has conducted a longstanding commercial internet garage sale via eBay and other platforms — using his official government issue cell phone to field queries from potential buyers.

 

The items Cohen has put up for sale range from musical equipment to marine equipment including an EPIRB, a radio-satellite location system required on commercial fishing boats, outboard motors compasses and a Zodiac, which he offered for parts.

The same phone number that Cohen uses in the internet offerings was given as his official contact in a deposition he gave to U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock in the summer of 2009.

Woodlock demanded that Cohen and his subordinates involved in an effort to shutdown the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction explain their roles in the abortive effort to publicize a penalty while the business was appealing in federal court.

Read the complete story from The Gloucester Daily Times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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