Hi everyone and welcome to episode 19 of FBI retired case file review with

Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual

FBI cases. In this episode I interview Jesse Coleman. Now Jesse served with the FBI for nearly 28 years

and he spent most of his career working drug investigations

targeting organized crime figures and pursuing high-profile violent drug gang members.

He is interviewed about the two-year period he went undercover, deep undercover, as a drug dealer selling

cocaine and heroin to made members of a Sicilian mob family. During the

undercover investigation he secretly recorded more than 200

conversations between him and the subjects. The case was initiated by a meeting he had with these crime figures at a little pizza shop in Clamont, Delaware.

Jesse's efforts resulted in the arrest and conviction of not only 20 members of the family operating here in the U.S.

but of its leader who was based in Sicily, Italy.

Jesse was awarded the Department of Justice's

organized crime, drug enforcement agent of the year

for his undercover role in this investigation. What Jesse has to say about going under cover and

dealing with informants is very interesting. I think you're going to enjoy this

interview. But before we get to it, I want to talk about my blog

post. I forgot to mention last week that I did write a blog post about the TV show Quantico on ABC. I titled it an open letter to the

writers, producers, and fans of the TV show Quantico and it got a great response. Not only did I get a reply back

from the creator of the show and from the writer's room I heard back from lots of

fans on the show got lots of tweets and everybody shared it.

I watched probably 13 of the 25 episodes and you know it really wasn't that bad.

Now there were of course exaggerations and embellishment,

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