47 | Major Case 106: Undercover & Under Pressure on Wall Street - Part Three

Best Case Worst Case

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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FBI Agent Jim Clemente goes deep undercover for three years in a major financial investigation on Wall Street.

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0:00.0	The Wall Street Journal has called the FBI and said,
0:08.0	we understand that there is an undercover FBI agent on the floor of the exchange.
0:17.0	Your undercover persona vouched for an FBI agent.
0:20.0	You can't overcome that.
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to the Best Case Worse case.
0:39.0	This is Jim Climenti, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler and writer producer for CBS's Criminal Minds.
0:45.0	With me today is my lovely co-host.
0:48.0	Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor.
0:51.0	And I'm excited today because we are going to be finishing up our three-part gym undercover as James Dean.
0:59.0	As Jim is a member of the FBI agent.
1:02.0	I think last time we left our listeners in suspense, you had just undergone what I like to call the star chamber where the commission had called you in and questioned you for two hours and 45 minutes.
1:19.0	You didn't crack.
1:21.0	They now believe you couldn't possibly be an FBI agent.
1:24.0	It's simply because you got emotional over your mother and you're now back to wearing a wire and you're on the floor.
1:31.0	And I'm continuing to trade crude oil.
1:34.0	It's an incredibly stressful job and I am literally trading at times.
1:43.0	Millions or tens of millions of dollars worth of crude oil.
1:47.0	And the stress involved with that keeping on top of the market as just one fraction of what I had to do.
1:53.0	Because at the same time every single day I would have to review the transcripts for the recordings the day before.
2:02.0	I'd have to identify people on the tapes for that day's recording.
2:06.0	I'd have to do all my paperwork, logging all this information, give them evidence, all this stuff.
2:12.0	It was tremendously difficult.
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