The FBI was building its case against PAR funding and their principles. My first interaction with

this particular case was down in Miami, where I met with the intermediary. I was managing a large

sum of money from a very wealthy family, where I would look for unusual or alternative investments.

That was my backstory. It put me in a good position to be able to ultimately

be introduced to Jill Lafort and the PAR funding company. I was invited to their offices,

which were in Center City and Philadelphia.

Welcome to episode 396 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 through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.

Today, we get to speak to retired agent Don Norris Doak, who served in the FBI for 22 years.

In this episode, she reviews her undercover role in the investment fraud investigation of Joseph LaFort,

the founder of PAR funding, the company, based in Philadelphia, took in money from investors

promised high returns to provide cash advances to small businesses that could not qualify

for loans from banks.

Par funding then charged the small business owners exorbitant interest rates and when they

failed to make their interest payments, threatened them with bodily harm.

Don, an FBI certified undercover employee, also talks about why she wanted to go undercover and share

stories from some of her other undercover roles, including the investigation of Vision

Quest, a Raleigh, North Carolina Ponzi scheme. Dawn was initially assigned to the New York

field office where she spent many years working undercover. During her

career, she took part in over 50 undercover operations, using countless aliases to successfully

infiltrate organized crime syndicates, drug cartels, financial fraud schemes, spy rings, and terrorist

groups. Her efforts resulted in numerous

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