Retired FBI Agent on Mob, International Crime & Fraud Cases | Kurt Siuzdak

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Kurt Siuzdak has spent his life serving — first in the U.S. military, then as an attorney, and ultimately as an FBI Special Agent for over two decades. From organized crime and major fraud cases to violent crimes, civil rights investigations, and overseas operations, Kurt has seen it all. #FBIAgent #FBIStories #TrueCrimePodcast #MobStories #FraudCases #LawEnforcementLife #CrimeDocumentary #lockedinpodcast Thank you to PRIZEPICKS for sponsoring this episode: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/IANBICK and use code IANBICK and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Use code LOCKEDIN for 20% OFF Wooooo Energy Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 FBI Secrets: Meet Kurt Siuzdak00:22 Military, Law & The Road to the FBI01:46 Going Viral: MrBeast Video & Unexpected Fame03:08 Personal Life, COVID & Mental Resilience05:55 Growing Up & Lessons from Small-Town Life11:59 Family Values & First Jobs that Shaped Him15:27 Military Service & Why He Chose Law School27:55 From Lawyer to FBI Agent: Career-Changing Moment31:44 Inside FBI Training & First High-Stakes Cases44:27 New York City Organized Crime & Fraud Investigations47:28 How the FBI Seizes Assets from the Mob53:39 Life in the FBI: Dangerous Moments & Close Calls01:00:46 Deployed to Iraq: Military & FBI Operations Overseas01:13:43 War Crimes Investigations & The Toughest Cases01:16:42 Moving to Connecticut: Casino & Tribal Crime Cases01:25:12 The Strangest Crimes He Ever Investigated01:36:57 Child Exploitation, Human Trafficking & Civil Rights Work01:43:10 Organized Crime Beyond the Mob: What You Didn’t Know01:49:25 FBI’s Final Years: Fighting Human Trafficking & Cybercrime01:55:27 Whistleblower Advocate: Standing Up for Agents02:01:19 Hard Lessons, Regrets & What He’d Do Differently02:06:16 Human Side of the Badge: Most Powerful Encounters02:14:00 Final Thoughts & Advice from 20+ Years in the FBI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I was doing a trial, he said, you're a good lawyer.
0:02.1	He goes, you'd be a better FBI agent. Did you ever feel in fear of your life? Did a war crimes case where they were in a rocky girl and then they executed her family while they were. What do you think was the most interesting fraud case you were? Kurt Sousdak spent over 20 years in the FBI taking down organized crime, investigating fraud, and working high-stakes cases around the world.
0:22.8	Before that, he served in the U.S. military and worked as an attorney.
0:26.5	Now he's sharing the untold stories of organized crime investigations, overseas operations,
0:31.9	and what it really takes to be an FBI agent.
0:37.4	Kurt, welcome to Lockton. Thanks so much for coming today. Oh, thank you very much for being here. an FBI agent.
0:38.7	Kurt, welcome to Lockton.
0:39.9	Thanks so much for coming today.
0:43.5	Oh, thank you very much for being here asking me to come.
0:43.9	Yeah.
0:47.9	What are the chances that two people from the same state were in a Mr.
0:48.4	Beast video?
0:50.3	Right now?
0:51.0	I don't know.
0:53.7	I mean, with what he's doing, about 100%, right? Oh, I guess with the bigger ones, but... No, it's no, it's crazy that, you know, both... I wouldn't say
0:58.6	I was a star, but the main victim for that and calling you up and finding out that you were
1:04.4	part of the same, the same adventure. But you were one of the original ones, and you were in a
1:10.6	solo episode, too. I was. This years ago, it was, I escaped or watched an FBI agent catch me or something. I was hunted by the FBI. Yeah. It's crazy. It is crazy because for a while, my kids almost, one of my sons almost got beat up because he said, Oh yeah,, my dad was going to be, it's going to be Mr. Beesner.
1:30.3	Like, you're a liar.
1:31.0	No, it could be.
1:31.9	And then they found out, they're like, oh, my God, what do you know? I'm like, nothing. They called me up. I was just a victim of their, of their escapades. And we didn't even know when we were talking to you, and then you casually brought it up, and then we casually brought it up that I was just in Mr. Meese.
1:44.7	I knew that. Yeah, no, I actually had known that I knew I watched them I watched Mr. Beast when I
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