Welcome to episode 293 of FBI Retired Case Fall Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent 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 Tim Gallagher, who served in the FBI for 22 years.

In this episode, he reviews his investigation of a multi-state check counterfeiting ring

that operated out of northeast Ohio.

Banks and businesses were hit with fake payroll checks and bogus personal checks, which

caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of check fraud losses.

Tim teamed up with a secret service agent and detectives from state and local police agencies

to identify and convict the ring leaders.

The case also resulted in the recovery of the remains of a cooperating witness suspected

of being murdered to stop him from testifying.

At the time of the investigation, Tim was assigned to the Cleveland Division and a seven-agent

resident agency in Canton, Ohio, where he worked a variety of violations.

Later in his FBI career, Tim served as a supervisor in Kansas City, Missouri and then led various

high-profile and criminal cyber investigations as an assistant special agent in charge

and then special agent in charge at the Washington Field Office.

During this time period, he also held several senior management positions at FBI headquarters

to include Chief of the Financial Crime Section, Chief of Cyber Outreach and Strategic Initiatives

and Deputy Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division.

His last bureau assignment was as the special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark Division,

where he led 800 professionals in the New Jersey office in their efforts to bolster national

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