292: Frank Runles – Niagara Falls Laborers Local 91
FBI Retired Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Frank Runles reviews a Labor Racketeering investigation where union management for Laborers Local 91 in Niagara Falls, New York, was charged with RICO and convicted of operating as a criminal enterprise. We also discuss interview techniques and deceptive language analysis, which he taught at the FBI Academy. Frank served in the FBI for 25 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 292 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through |
| 0:20.1 | my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we get to speak to retired agent Frank Reynolds, who served in the FBI for more than |
| 0:31.7 | 25 years. |
| 0:33.2 | In this episode, he reviews a labor racketeering investigation where Rico charges were filed |
| 0:40.3 | against the union management to prove that laborer local 91 in Niagara Falls, New York |
| 0:46.6 | operated as a criminal enterprise. |
| 0:49.7 | We also discuss interview skills and interview training techniques. |
| 0:54.9 | While assigned to the Buffalo Division, Frank worked a wide variety of criminal matters |
| 1:00.4 | to include organized crime, financial institution fraud, health care fraud, labor racketeering, |
| 1:07.2 | kidnapping and serial murders. |
| 1:09.6 | Frank was also a sniper team leader on SWAT for 10 years. |
| 1:15.6 | Later in his career, Frank was promoted to the FBI Academy, where as part of the FBI |
| 1:21.6 | National Academy, he instructed Secret Service, U.S. Marshall Service, Department of Homeland |
| 1:28.5 | Security Agents and other local, state and international senior law enforcement officers |
| 1:35.1 | on advanced interview techniques and deceptive language analysis. |
| 1:40.0 | Frank was also the lead instructor for new FBI agents, instructing courses on interviewing |
| 1:46.4 | and interrogation, detection of deception and intelligence collection techniques. |
| 1:52.1 | Frank also worked in Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, debriefing hundreds of foreign fighters captured during |
| 1:58.9 | combat operations. |
| 2:01.0 | Frank has received many awards, including Investigator of the Year Award by the Federal Law |
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