396: Dawn Norris Doak – Working Undercover, Par Funding Investment Fraud

Retired agent Dawn Norris Doak reviews her undercover role in the investment fraud investigation of Joseph LaForte, the founder of Par Funding, which 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. Dawn, an FBI-certified undercover employee (UCE), also talks about why she wanted to go undercover and shares stories from some of her other undercover roles. She served in the FBI for 22 years.

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398: Al Scudieri and Judy Hoyer – Bankruptcy, Bank Failure, Ponzi Schemes

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397: James Page – Jewelry Store Burglary Ring, Weapons of Mass Destruction

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395: Michael De La Pena – Santa Claus Armored Car Robbery and Murder

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394: Ed Mireles - Undercover Tales of Money, Drugs and Lies

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393: George Olivo – Polygraph Exams, Interrogations, and Confessions

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392: Larry Wansley – Early Days of Undercover Program, Corrupt Texas Sheriff

Former agent Larry Wansley, one of the FBI's first long-term deep undercover agents, reviews the early years of the FBI's undercover program when, starting in1973 he and a handful of agents, including...

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