Welcome to episode 151 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the

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.

Today we get to speak to retired agent Deborah La Provat, who served in the FBI for 20 years. She spent most of her career working international

corruption investigations. In this episode, Deborah Law Provat reviews the initiation of the FBI's kleptocracy program, and seizing

more than $1 billion from corrupt foreign officials, including recovering $630 million of Nigerian government funds

stolen by the former president of Nigeria.

Deborah, who has a master's degree in forensic science,

also talks about serving for several years

on the Evidence Response Team

at the Washington Field Office and at the FBI Laboratory

and training at the body farm. Later in her career Deborah served as a supervisory

special agent in the International Corruption Unit at

FBI headquarters since retiring from the Bureau.

Deborah is a senior investigator for the century, which seeks to disrupt and ultimately dismantle the

network of perpetrators, facilitators, and enablers who fund and profit from Africa's deadliest conflicts.

You are going to really love this episode.

During the first half we're talking about international corruption and in the second half

we're talking about recovering human remains. It's a jam-packed episode. But before we get to the

episode I want to congratulate my Twitter friend, author Meg Gardner, who has been named as the president of the Mystery Writers of America.

Congratulations, Meg.

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