Welcome to episode 339 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews

with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to retired agent George Graves Jr., who served

in the FBI for 24 years. In this episode, he reviews his investigation of five Orange, New Jersey police officers

for the wrongful death and violation of the civil rights of Earl Faison. Orange Police Department

Officer Joyce Carnegie was shot and killed by an and she had stopped for questioning about an armed robbery.

A few days later, Faison was arrested as a suspect in her murder.

He died less than an hour after being in police custody.

It was later determined that Earl Faison was not responsible for Officer Carnegie's murder.

George Graze was nominated for the prestigious FBI Director's Award

for his successful resolution of this investigation.

During his career, George was assigned to the Newark and Columbia field offices,

where he conducted sophisticated and complex white-color crime investigations

on subject matters such as public corruption, civil rights, security fraud, bank fraud, domestic

terrorism, and health care fraud. For his successful investigative efforts, George has received

awards from the FBI, the Department of Justice

Civil Rights Division, and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, Noble.

He has been credited with the conviction of former five-term Newark Mayor, Sharp James,

and the conviction of four-term Perth Amboy Mayor and New Jersey

Assemblyman Joseph Voss. In June 2015, George assisted in the investigation of the Federal

Civil Rights Hate Crime case involving the tragic shooting deaths of nine African-American members of the

Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to being a successful case agent,

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