Welcome to episode 168 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 John Kuntz who served

in the FBI for 20 years. His first assignment was to the Philadelphia division where he worked initially,

fraud against the government matters. In this episode, John reviews the 1981 counterfeit septa trans-pass case, where two men, using specialty

paper printed and sold fake monthly fare instruments, Transpasses, which caused losses of $1 million per month to the

Philadelphia Transit Agency.

After a promotion to FBI headquarters, John worked first

in the inspection division Office of Planning, Evaluations, and audits and

then in the personnel office where he adjudicated employees determined by the

inspection division to have been involved in serious administrative or illegal conduct. John says that the unit was affectionately known as the

You Fail, We Nell, group. He also worked in the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs.

Later in John's career, he was transferred to the Denver Division, where he was the supervisor of the

SOG, which conducted ground air and electronic surveillance

throughout the Denver Division,

which covers all of Colorado and Wyoming.

Upon retiring, John Kunt took up another challenging role,

being a stay-home dad caring for his two young daughters.

This was a fun interview for me.

It was great catching up with John.

Plus I got to talk about SEPTA, which as most of you know, after I retired from the FBI,

I was SEPTA's spokesperson and director of media relations for seven years.

As a matter of fact, my book Pay to Play is for sale at the

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