Enos, deputy director of the Agency for International Development's task force on Central American aid, admitted taking the money since 1985 from George Kraus, owner of a New York-based consulting company, according to court documents.
I violated the trust of my co-workers," The Washington Post quoted Enos as saying.
Two of Mugabe's top aides, Defense Minister Enos Nkala and Political Affairs Minister Frederick Shava, quit the government and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) party after lying to the commission.
Also testifying in support of the defendants were Professor Jakes Gerwel, chief administrator of the predominantly mixed-race University of the Western Cape, and Enos Mabuza, president of the homeland of Kangwane.
In 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas V spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice and landed off Puerto Rico.