Welcome to episode 164 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 my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to

retired agent Scott Curtis who served in the FBI for 22 years. In this

episode Scott reviews a public corruption

investigation that convicted Allentown, Pennsylvania Mayor Ed

Pulowski as well as a dozen other public officials and business

executives for campaign contribution bribery extortion and other corruption

related offenses.

Scott Curtis but most of his career assigned to the New York field office

working on an organized crime squad investigating the Colombo Elsian family before transferring to the

Allentown resident agency out of the Philadelphia division.

Scott Curtis is currently employed as an Associate Director of Global Investigations and Compliance

for Navigant Consulting, where he is responsible for conducting investigations of fraud, corruption, and other misconduct.

This episode is a little bit longer than usual, but that's because as you know I love these white-collar

corruption and fraud cases. Towards the end of the interview Scott and I had a very

interesting conversation about the expectation of jurors and the public that there be recordings, both video and audio, as part of the evidence presented at trial.

I actually learned about new procedures the FBI has about custodial interviews, which

means I'm going to have to change a section of my soon to be published book,

FBI myths and misconceptions, a manual for armchair detectives.

Before we get to the interview, I want to thank a listener on Podbeam.

...