310: Dennis Cosgrove - Russian Diamond Looters, Golden ADA

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Dennis Cosgrove reviews the Golden ADA investigation, which he opened after an informant provided information about three Russian immigrants who had opened a state-of-the-art diamond merchant center in San Francisco with diamonds suspected of having been looted from the Russian government and smuggled into the United States. The scheme resulted in Russia losing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diamonds and precious gems and stones.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 310 of FBI retired case file review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.3	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the
0:16.3	FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case
0:22.0	reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:26.7	Retired agent Dennis Kossgrove who served in the FBI for 22 years.
0:33.4	Dennis reviews his golden ADA investigation,
0:36.9	which he opened after an informant provided information
0:41.1	about three Russian immigrants who had opened a state-of-the-art
0:45.2	diamond merchant center with diamonds that were suspected to have been looted from
0:51.0	the Russian government and smuggled into the United States.
0:54.7	The scheme resulted in Russia losing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diamonds and
1:00.9	precious gems and stones.
1:03.4	As the case developed into a major operation,
1:06.6	Dennis was assisted by a multi-agency team of investigators,
1:11.4	customs special agent Joe Leonti, now deceased, IRS special
1:16.3	agent John Cinecie, San Francisco FBI agent Joe Davidson, an assistant United States attorney Stephen Jigger.
1:25.0	After Dennis, a fluent Russian speaker, was transferred to Moscow as an assistant legal attache, Ailet, Joe Davidson took over the case, but Dennis continued
1:37.6	his involvement covering Leeds in Russia.
1:40.8	Dennis was assigned to several FBI field offices during his Bureau career, including the
1:46.7	Kansas City Division, the San Jose resident agency out of the San Francisco Division, and the Fort Myers resident agency out of the Tampa division.
1:57.0	In addition to serving in Moscow, Dennis was legal attache in Asia and worked internationally for the Bureau in Hungary, Iraq,
2:07.3	Kazakhstan and many other countries.
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