149: Bob Herndon – The Informant, Price Fixing Case, Book, Movie (Part 2)

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In part two of this two-part episode, retired agent Robert Herndon reviews an anti-trust corporate fraud investigation involving Archer Daniels Midland, a global food processing corporation operating a price-fixing scheme to steal millions of dollars from its customers. Herndon also discusses Mark Whitacre, his rogue cooperating witness who had a hidden agenda that nearly destroyed the careers of Herndon and his co-case agent. The case, code-named Operation Harvest King, was the subject of the true crime thriller The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald and a feature film by the same name, starring Matt Damon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 149 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.1	I'm a Retired agent on a mission to show the public who the
0:15.8	FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and the personal case reviews of my former colleagues who served in the FBI.
0:26.4	Today, once again, we get to speak to retired agent Bob Herndon who served 28 years with the FBI. I'm not going to recite his
0:36.2	bio again because you got that in part one, but I do want to remind you that in this episode
0:42.0	Bob Herndon reviews an antitrust corporate fraud
0:45.9	investigation involving Archer Daniels Midland a global food processing
0:51.2	corporation convicted of operating a price-fixing scheme to still millions of dollars
0:56.9	from its customers.
0:58.3	Bob Herndon also discusses Mark Whitaker, his rogue cooperating witness, who had a hidden agenda that nearly
1:05.6	destroyed the careers of Herndon and his co-case agent Brian Shepard.
1:11.1	The case was the subject of the true crime thriller The informant by Kirk Eichenwald and a feature film by the same name starring Matt Damon.
1:21.0	What I really enjoyed about part one and especially part two of this
1:25.2	episode is that it really shows you what it's like to be a special agent. That title is more than what we do. It is also who we are and when that
1:39.2	self-image is threatened it can be traumatic.
1:43.0	Before we get to the interview, I want to acknowledge again that I changed my introduction in 2019.
1:51.0	I want to focus on my mission to support the FBI and I want to make sure that my work has a social impact.
1:59.0	The topic of my
2:03.3	reader team is to break down of how I plan to support the FBI this year
2:08.7	and I invite you to join my reader team to read my post on the topic. Also when you join my reader team you get the
2:18.0	FBI reading resource which is a colorful list of books about the FBI written by FBI agents who have appeared on this
2:28.4	podcast.
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