Nigel Winfield

{{short description|American businessman and convicted felon}}

Nigel Winfield is an American businessman and convicted felon who once ran a company in Cyprus called FN Aviation. He did some dealings with Bob Ney, a Republican congressman from Ohio who later pleaded guilty to bribery charges. Specifically, he paid for a February 2003 trip to London for Ney and an aide, and in return Ney personally lobbied then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to ease U.S. sanctions against Iran.{{cite magazine|first=Mark |last=Hosenball |title=Lobbying: The Web Widens |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10857676/site/newsweek |magazine=Newsweek |accessdate=2006-01-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060118134036/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10857676/site/newsweek/ |archivedate=January 18, 2006 }}

Winfield pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion in 1988; he pleaded guilty to hiding $11.3 million in income from the IRS.{{cite news|last=Davis|first=Kevin|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-03-17/news/9201280808_1_federal-prison-federal-judge-fbi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205041849/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-03-17/news/9201280808_1_federal-prison-federal-judge-fbi|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2016|title=Prison Transfers Ex-rancher To Dania Halfway House|newspaper=Sun-Sentinel|date=March 17, 1992|accessdate=June 7, 2015}}