Welcome to episode 2009 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a Retired on a mission to show you 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 Elaine Smith who served in the FBI for 22 years.

Elaine, who grew up in the Chicago area, spent her career assigned to the Chicago

Division. In this episode, she reviews her efforts to convince Ken Tokyo Joe Edo the highest ranking Asian American mob associate to cooperate

against the Chicago mob who was also known as the outfit.

In an attempt to secure his cooperation, Elaine Smith successfully

investigated Joe for interstate gambling violations. He refused to

cooperate and turned her down that is until his mob associates attempted to

kill him by shooting him in the head three times.

After the botched hit, what developed was a 17-year cooperation relationship between Elaine and Joe. The historical evidence he provided

led to arrest, convictions, and long sentences for many of Chicago's top mobsters.

Later in her career, Elaine became an expert in money laundering and white-collar crime

and was named the first female supervisor in the history of the

Chicago FBI office and the second female supervisor promoted in the field.

The Federal Reserve Bank named her Leader of the Year in 2000 and in September of 2001,

Elaine was placed in charge of reconstructing the financial backgrounds of the 19 terrorists of the 9-11

bombing of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the Downing of Flight 91 in Pennsylvania.

After she retired from the FBI, Elaine Smith continued to conduct examinations for the Federal

Reserve Bank of New York and assist financial institutions in designing their

transaction detection systems. Later she began working with attorneys whose

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