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Locked In with Ian Bick

I Was an FBI Agent — Then I Survived Prison | Bob Lustyik

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm there the first day. I knew that I had to set precedent right away. So I went into the TV room. The shot caller for Latin Kings came in and said, yo, you're not allowed in here. I said, yeah, okay, whatever, I'm staying. Then they got a shot cola for the bloods. And he came in with him. He's like, look, we got rules. You can't stay here. I said, look, I wasn't a criminal agent. I'm staying here.

0:21.5

I said, how do you want to do this? So we went into the showers. I got myself up against the wall.

0:26.1

The white boy said, who do you want first? And I was like, let's just get it over. Everybody comes.

0:30.4

Bob Lustick was a decorated FBI agent who spent nearly 25 years hunting foreign spies until he became the one in handcuffs,

0:38.6

from high-stakes intelligence missions to a 15-year federal prison sentence for conspiracy to commit

0:44.9

bribery. Bob's story is a shocking fall from grace. In this episode, he reveals what it's

0:50.4

really like to join the FBI, chase America's enemies, and survive prison as a former

0:55.6

federal agent.

0:59.8

Bob, welcome to Lockton, man. Thanks so much for coming. We've been working on this for a couple

1:04.7

years now since I was in my old studio. I came across your story and I think I reached out to you.

1:10.2

You have an incredible story and I'm so excited we get to do this today.

1:14.0

Yeah, I'm really happy to be here and thanks so much for the opportunity. You really have a nice setup here and

1:19.1

anybody who gets the opportunity should jump at it. Well, thank you, Bob. Sure. And you're our first

1:25.0

former FBI agent on the show and a FBI agent that went to prison.

1:30.4

Oh, yeah.

1:30.9

We got them both at the same time.

1:32.7

Yeah, both sides of the fence.

1:34.3

Both sides of the fence.

1:35.9

Where'd you grow up, Bob?

1:37.1

I actually grew up in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and I'm actually still there.

1:42.5

Okay.

1:43.0

So I traveled around for work, but I always came back home.

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