It's a funny offense to work because if public corruption works the way it's supposed to,

nobody talks about it because you have someone who wants that official, that public official,

to get something done for them, and then the public official says, well, I can do it for a price.

And as long as they're both happy with the arrangement, neither one of them is going to talk about it.

Welcome to episode 373 of FBI Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission.

To show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case

reviews were former colleagues. Today we get to speak to retired agent John McMurtry,

who served in the FBI for over 28 years. In this episode, he reviews his police corruption investigation where drug dealers

operating in Ufala, Alabama, complained about being extorted for cash by members of the

Ufala Police Department. The dealers cooperated with the FBI investigation and made consensual recordings that led to the arrest

and conviction of a police captain, his lieutenant, and the local district attorney. John also reviews

the worst assignment of his FBI career, serving a warrant to search the contents of a septic tank. You're not going to believe

this one. The lead was part of the Birmingham, Alabama mail bombing of U.S. Court of Appeals

Judge Robert Vance. John McMurtry is the author of FBI Special Agent on the Outside, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper

on the Inside, or How I Went from the Big Hat to the Little Badge, a memoir reflecting on his

25-year journey through his law enforcement career. After seven years as a Pennsylvania trooper, John joined the FBI and was assigned

to the Mobile Division, Dothan, Alabama, Resident Agency, the Newark Division, and the Memphis

Division in the Nashville Resident Agency. Note, Memphis is now the RA out of the Nashville division. During John's Bureau career, he worked

public corruption, South American drug trafficking organizations, and violent crime and street gangs.

John was a firearms instructor, a tactical instructor, and an active shooter, rapid response tactics instructor.

He also served on the Memphis SWAT team as a certified team operator.

John retired as the coordinator for the Nashville RA Violent Crime and Child Exploitation Task Force,

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