319: Mario Tariche and Raquel Cicini - Cocaine Cowboys, Operation RECOIL (Part 1)

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In Part 1 of this two-part episode, retired agents Mario Tariche and Raquel “Rocky” Cicini review their investigation of Willy Falcon, Sal Magluta, aka The Cocaine Cowboys and others, which resulted in the dismantlement of the largest drug trafficking organization in South Florida and provided the evidence of jury tampering and bribery in the acquittal verdict received in a prior drug case against the defendants. The case was code-named Operation RECOIL, an acronym for Racketeering, Execution, Corruption, Obstruction of Justice, Intimidation of Witnesses, and Laundering of Money. The case was memorialized in the Netflix series “Cocaine Cowboys Kings of Miami,” during which Mario and Rocky were interviewed.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 319 of FBI retired case fall review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you
0:16.8	who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews of former colleagues.
0:25.6	Today we get to speak to retired agent Mario Tarichie and former agent Raquel Rocky Sesini.
0:36.2	In part one of this two-part episode,
0:39.5	Mario and Rocky review their investigation of Willie Falcone, Salma Gluta,
0:46.7	aka the Cocaine Cowboys, and others which resulted in the dismantle dismantling of the largest drug trafficking organization in South Florida
0:57.5	and provided the evidence of jury tampering and bribery in the acquittal
1:03.7	received in a prior DEA drug case
1:07.8	against their subjects.
1:09.8	The case was codeename Operation Recoyle.
1:13.8	However, it has been memorialized
1:16.8	as Cocaine Cowboys King of Miami
1:20.5	from the Netflix series by the same name during which Mario and Rocky were interviewed.
1:27.0	Mario Terici served in the FBI for 30 years.
1:31.0	He was assigned to the New York Division where he worked drug
1:34.8	trafficking cases and background investigations, the Miami Division's
1:39.6	Key West Resident Agency, and the Miami Division Headquarters City to work on
1:45.9	public corruption matters and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
1:51.2	Mario served as the supervisor of the Public Corruption
1:55.1	Task Force for five years and as the FBI Deputy On Scene Commander for the
2:01.3	Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Baghdad, Iraq, responsible for the
2:07.2	trial of Saddam Hussein and the investigation of high-ranking Bath Party officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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