338: Jack Garcia – Undercover Legend, FBIAA Distinguished Service Honoree

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Retired legendary undercover agent Joaquin “Jack” Garcia shares his thoughts about being honored on November 21, 2024, by the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) as their G-Man Honors – Salute to FBI Heroes, Distinguish Service Honoree. During a replay of his previous interview on the podcast, he reviews some of his early undercover roles and his last assignment infiltrating the New York mob as "Jack Falcone," where, after gaining the trust of mobster Greg DePalma, Jack was able to penetrate the Gambino crime family for nearly three years. Jack played his undercover role so convincingly that he was proposed for membership in La Cosa Nostra. Jack Garcia served in the FBI for 26 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 338 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.2	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does
0:20.4	through my books, my blog, and my podcast case
0:23.5	reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to once again, retired agent, no retired
0:32.2	legendary undercover agent, Joaquin Jack Garcia. Jack Garcia served in the FBI for 25 years.
0:42.3	In this episode, he shares his thoughts about being honored on November 21st, 2024 by the FBI
0:51.5	Agents Association as their G-Man honors,
0:56.3	salute to FBI heroes, distinguished service honoree.
1:00.9	And then, after our discussion about the award ceremony,
1:06.4	I'm going to replay his previous interview on FBI retired case file review, where he reviews his
1:13.8	early undercover roles at his last assignment infiltrating the New York mob as Jack Falcone.
1:21.6	During this undercover role, Jack played a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida.
1:30.3	In New York, after gaining the trust of mobster Greg De Palma,
1:35.0	Jack was able to penetrate the Gambino crime family for nearly three years.
1:40.5	The case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 35 mobsters, including the top members of the
1:48.4	Gambino crime family. Jack played his undercover role so convincingly that he was proposed for membership
1:55.2	in La Cosa Nostra. During his career, he was assigned to the Newark, San Juan, Philadelphia, and New York divisions. However, for 24 of his 25 years of service, he traveled all around the country, successfully working undercover in over 100 FBI operations. Jack's history as an undercover agent is extensive. He's also renowned for his
2:21.1	roles in successful cases against corrupt politicians in Atlantic City, corrupt police officers
2:28.1	in the Hollywood Police Department, the Broward County Sheriff's Office, Boston Police Department,
2:35.4	and in the San Juan Puerto Rico Police Department. He has also worked undercover against hundreds of drug dealers and
2:41.2	leaders of both Colombian and Mexican drug cartels while posing as either a money launderinger,
2:47.2	transporter, or trafficker. He has done undercover work on national and international terrorism
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