We're, you know, keen investigators in this sense is something as long here.

But wait, didn't the eight and a half year old child pick the father out of a lineup?

Well, as a 22 year veteran of the FBI, I always love it when somebody up above,

somebody in the administration says you're nuts, get out of here.

Hello, and welcome to Best Case Worst Case. This is your host, Jim Clemente, with my co-host,

Francy Hakes. How you doing, Francy? Good. Hi, Jim.

Great to have you here. And today we have another special guest, John Tanza,

who's a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, and he's here today to tell us about his best case, worst case.

How you doing, John? Not too bad today. Good. Well, it's great to have you. We appreciate you coming out.

So tell us, where were you stationed while you're in the FBI and how long we're in?

Well, I started my career in Monroe, Louisiana. That was my first office, 1987.

I spent 10 years in that small little office. It was a three-man resident agency,

and really kind of out of my comfort zone since I came from New York.

I was used to a big city and a lot of different things. And Louisiana was a definite change of pace and culture.

Oh, yeah. From there, I was transferred up to Cleveland, Ohio.

Why was active in a long-term undercover case, involving police corruption up in Cleveland?

Wow. And I spent 10 years there. Okay. And did you go back to headquarters at any point?

Yeah. From Cleveland, I went back to FBI headquarters for a period of time as a supervisor in the undercover and sensitive operations unit there.

How long were you there? Two years. Yeah. What years were those?

That was been in like 2003. Yeah. I was I was undercover myself for a few years, but that was 1989 through 91.

It was a broker on the commodities exchange in New York City on the floor of the exchange.

That's good. I couldn't do all that math and calculations. All my undercover stuff was with Italian wise guys who barely can count to 10.

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