FBI Retired Case File Review

Retired agent Dennis Lormel reviews terrorist financing and money laundering and how the FBI tracks, investigates and disrupts funding activity. Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he was promoted to Chief of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Program. After the attacks, he immediately established an investigative organization within the FBI that, within days, identified the funding stream that supported the terrorist attack.

Retired agent Michael McGowan reviews his memoir, Ghost – My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent, that recaps his more than 30 years with the FBI, the majority of which was spent working undercover against and infiltrating some of the most dangerous, sophisticated, and notorious criminal organizations and individuals throughout the world, participating in more than 50 FBI Undercover Operations.

Former agent Asha Rangappa reviews Russian interference and how the FBI’s counterintelligence agents, along with the entire intelligence community is addressing the threat. During her time in the Bureau, Asha Rangappa assessed threats to national security, conducted classified investigations on suspected foreign agents, and performed undercover work. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at the Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a legal and national security analyst for CNN.

Retired agent Bill Kinane reviews the five years he served in the FBI's Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Office in Moscow, Russia, the first-ever official Bureau presence in the country. Bill Kinane established a working relationship with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). At the time, current Russian President Vladimir Putin was the head of the FSB, and Bill Kinane met with him and his team weekly.

Retired agent Tim Tracy reviews a Kentucky mortgage fraud case where the main subjects, son Bill and father Tony Erpenbeck received multi-year sentences for obstruction of justice and the father was sentenced to additional years of incarceration for threatening to kill the judge and prosecutor, and kidnap Tim Tracy’s young children.

In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, retired agents Ray Morrow and Dan Estrem review their Cleveland Police Corruption case where Ray served as the undercover agent, and Dan was the case agent. The major undercover operation was developed to gather evidence on corrupt police officers who were accepting payments to act as lookouts and protect illegal gambling dens. Ray and Dan set up two casinos which were actually part of an FBI sting. Thirty officers were convicted.

Retired agents Ray Morrow and Dan Estrem review their Cleveland Police Corruption case where Ray was the undercover agent and Dan was the case agent. The major undercover operation was developed to gather evidence on corrupt police officers accepting payments to act as lookouts and protect illegal gambling dens. Ray and Dan set up two gambling casinos which were actually part of an FBI sting. The case resulted in the indictment and conviction of 30 Cleveland Police Officers and 17 other individuals.

Retired agent Mark Thundercloud reviews the case of an American mother and son, Gerfa and Kevin Lunsmann, kidnapped by terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf while visiting relatives in the Philippines. Thundercloud also talks about his role in the rescue of the Maersk Alabama commercial vessel’s Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates.

Retired agent Michael McGowan reviews a Pakistani drug investigation where he was falsely accused and investigated for the theft of $200 million dollars of heroin and cocaine from a secured FBI evidence vault. His reputation and integrity were temporarily destroyed by the false allegation. The actual person responsible was another FBI drug agent who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime.

Retired agent Michael Tabman reviews the case of Stephen Saccoccia, a coin dealer convicted of laundering Colombian drug cartel money by creating phony invoices and buying and reselling the same bars of gold. Saccoccia was sentenced to 660 years in prison.

Retired agent Michael J. Anderson reviews a case from early in his career where he investigated Miguel Moya, a jury foreman suspected of accepting a $500,000 bribe to vote to acquit Salvador Magluta, and Willy Falcon, two Miami drug kingpins on trial for smuggling cocaine.

Former agent Kevin Barrows reviews a major identity fraud case involving a group of individuals who stole more than 30,000 identities through the unauthorized computer-based accessing of information from personal credit reports.

Retired agent Dan Craft reviews his investigation of Jeffrey Dahmer who he interviewed on four separate occasions, each time developing a comprehensive behavioral profile of the serial killer. Dan Craft also provides tips on interrogating violent criminals.

Retired agent Dave Richter reviews his investigation of the Johnston Gang, a violent family-based robbery, and burglary ring responsible for millions of dollars of thefts and convicted of the murders of six witnesses.

Retired agent Dave Nadolski reviews the Loomis Fargo Vault Sting which introduced an FBI informant into a violent and heavily armed Boston crime gang conspiring to forcefully take over an armored car company’s money vault containing one hundred million dollars.