Freelance Investigator (FLEO Investigations) operating in the New York City/New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania areas. Technical Advisor/Media Consultant/Writer.
WEST POINT GRADUATE, former ARMY INFANTRY CAPTAIN, and ex-FBI AGENT specializing in organized crime (especially the Italian mafia) and government corruption. Graduate of the WGA Veterans Writing Project and former VME/AT&T Media Fellow.
Busted sophisticated criminal networks with informants/wired-up undercovers, and wiretaps (also: stings/tailing/photo surveillance). Expert on How It All Works, the gathering of evidence for indictment/trial, from robbery or fraud to homicide. Expert witness who’s testified in numerous federal trials and related hearings.
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Freelance Investigator (FLEO Investigations) operating in the New York City/New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania areas. Technical Advisor/Media Consultant/Writer.
WEST POINT GRADUATE, former ARMY INFANTRY CAPTAIN, and ex-FBI AGENT specializing in organized crime (especially the Italian mafia) and government corruption. Graduate of the WGA Veterans Writing Project and former VME/AT&T Media Fellow.
Busted sophisticated criminal networks with informants/wired-up undercovers, and wiretaps (also: stings/tailing/photo surveillance). Expert on How It All Works, the gathering of evidence for indictment/trial, from robbery or fraud to homicide. Expert witness who’s testified in numerous federal trials and related hearings. Flipped violent criminals into cooperating witnesses. Intimate familiarity with the witness-protection program. 100% disabled veteran.
- Quarterbacked investigations disrupting several criminal enterprises in and around New York City leading to the conviction of hundreds of criminals—with emphasis on the storied Colombo crime family—and culminating in the largest single-day arrest in U.S. history of 127 organized-crime members, effectively dismantling the Colombos’ ruling administration. In just five years in Philadelphia, spearheaded criminal convictions of over a dozen Pennsylvania public officials and business executives engaged in pay-to-play corruption, including mayors of the state’s third and fifth largest cities (Allentown and Reading).
- FBI advanced training at Quantico, VA in areas of Source Development, Interview & Interrogation, White-Collar Crime, Money-laundering, Public Corruption, Homicide Investigations, and other areas. 1996 to 2018
- Planned (and usually personally) executed hundreds of arrests, searches, and surveillance operations of violent, highly sophisticated criminals with such memorable monikers as “Junior Lollipops,” “Fish” Marra, “Tommy Shots,” “Fat Larry,” et al. Member, International Homicide Investigators Association.
- Solved over ten cold-case homicides including the murder of a police officer identified by the New York Daily News as one of the city’s Top Ten unsolved crimes of the 20th With a shovel in my hand, personally found the body of Colombo underboss Billy Cutolo, missing for more than nine years.
- Expert on the history/rituals of the mafia: inductions, moral code, murder protocols, and such rackets as loansharking, car theft, bank burglaries, labor union/construction. Also: Confidential informants manipulating agents. Busted brokerage-boiler rooms hijacked by the mob and defrauding thousands of over $40 million.
- Mentor to flipped mafia wiseguys connected to scores of baseball-batterings and murders. Out of jail and struggling to stay legit. Recipient of prestigious Department of Justice EOUSA Director’s Award, 2020.
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