CHICAGO -- An American foreign service officer was arrested in the nation's capital Monday on charges of plotting to sell visas at the American Embassy in Lithuania for more than $40,000 and a vintage motorcycle, federal prosecutors in Chicago said.
Matthew Christ, 41, of Alexandria, Va., was arrested on charges contained in a 19-count superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Chicago on March 24 and unsealed Monday, prosecutors said.
He was released on bond by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., pending further court action in Chicago, prosecutors said. A public telephone listing for Christ could not be found in Alexandria. His attorney's name was not immediately learned.
According to the indictment, an unnamed coconspirator in Chicago wired money to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius where one of the 10 defendants charged in the case, Darius Reika, 28, would buy the visas from Christ, who served as political officer, for $3,000 to $14,000.
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