Andrew Maxwell Parker bought expensive cars as many as 14 cars in less than three years along with four mansions all with taxpayers' money.

"I was but a cog in this big machine," Parker told the judge. "The truth is I'm caught in a system that, like with many agencies in Washington, is defective," the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday in its online edition.Andrew Maxwell Parker was ordered by U.S. District Judge Fred Biery on Monday to pay $10 million in restitution, equal to his profits from the scheme, and $494,822 in back taxes. And the judge ordered him to serve three years of federal supervision after he's released from prison.Parker, 41, pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud, conspiracy, tax evasion, money laundering and filing false tax reports and faced up to 10 years in prison, as part of a plea deal.He downplayed his role in the fraud, which happened between February 2003 to November 2006.Bank officials testified Parker exploited Export-Import Bank's medium-term loan guarantee program, forcing the bank to make good on $107 million in loans that went into default.Parker also allegedly caused another $10 million in losses to Vinmar Finance Ltd., a commercial lender in Houston that Parker turned to in 2005 when the Export-Import Bank stalled in issuing loan guarantees to Parker's clients.Prosecutors said Parker bought expensive cars as many as 14 cars in less than three years along with four mansions all with taxpayers' money.The government is keeping his Hummer and one of his mansions. The remaining cars have been leased, sold or registered to relatives or others. His other homes were sold or leased.

Andrew Maxwell Parker bought expensive cars as many as 14 cars in less than three years along with four mansions all with taxpayers' money.

"I was but a cog in this big machine," Parker told the judge. "The truth is I'm caught in a system that, like with many a...

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