NPS official pleads guilty

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The highest-ranking internal investigator for the National Park Service pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing from the agency charged with protecting the nation’s natural and cultural resources.

Patricia Buccello, the national special agent in charge for the National Park Service, admitted in federal court to using the government credit card to buy more than $4,000 in airline tickets over a two-year period to fly from D.C. to Maine, where her husband, David, is the park ranger for the Acadia National Park.

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