020: Harry Garcia - Corrupt Inspectors at the Calexico Border
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
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🗓️ 4 June 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Retired Supervisory Special Agent Harry Garcia reviews a multi-agency Southwest Border Taskforce investigation—code named "Port Sweeper" and "Boiling Point"—initiated in the 1990s that resulted in sentences of life imprisonment and 27 years in prison for the main subjects—two corrupt inspectors assigned to the Calexico border patrol station and the seizure of $1.2 million in cash.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to FBI retired Case Far Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual |
| 0:15.4 | FBI cases. In this episode I interview retired supervisory special agent Harry |
| 0:22.2 | Garcia. |
| 0:23.4 | Harry served in the FBI for 22 years. |
| 0:26.5 | He was an accountant and a former IRS revenue agent, and throughout most of his Bureau |
| 0:31.8 | career he worked complex financial investigations. |
| 0:36.0 | He is interviewed about a multi-agency Southwest Border Task Force targeting targeting corrupt Border Inspectors working out of the |
| 0:45.6 | Calexico Border Station, which is on the border of California and Mexico. |
| 0:51.6 | The case was very successful. California and Mexico. |
| 0:52.6 | The case was very successful. |
| 0:55.8 | Not only did it result in the seizure of $1.2 million in cash, the two main corrupt inspectors they were looking at received |
| 1:06.4 | sentences of life imprisonment and 27 years in prison. |
| 1:12.6 | Now if you are listening to this episode |
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| 1:41.8 | So here's the show and we'll talk a little bit more after the |
| 1:45.4 | interview is over. Hi everyone I am excited to introduce you to my guest today. |
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