Tim Wood

eBook, ePUB

Criminals & Presidents (eBook, ePUB)

The Adventures of a Secret Service Agent

Beschreibung

A true crime memoir taking the reader on a journey from his early years investigating some of the notorious counterfeiters and bank fraud masterminds of Las Vegas, Nevada, to personal interactions with presidents and first ladies and a US Supreme Court decision preserving the methods utilized by the Secret Service to protect the life of the president of the United States.

The undercover investigation of a drug-addicted forgery ring targeting Las Vegas casinos and the investigation of an escaped federal prisoner, scamming travel agents out of tens of thousands of dollars. A massive sting operation in a Las Vegas sports book, a Hells Angel counterfeiter, and the investigation of an alcoholic, schizophrenic cross-dresser who repeatedly threatened to kill President Reagan. The investigation and arrest of the Boston Patriot, one of New Englands most prolific credit card fraud masters and a dopey drug smuggler turned counterfeiter who smoked one too many joints. The investigation of an identify theft suspect with a lengthy criminal record, who convinced the FBI he was someone else, and an investigation of a pipe bomb targeting President Clinton in a small Oregon town.

Riding horses and golfing with President Clinton and the day he made President Clinton scream out in pain. Conducting presidential security advances with a Hollywood movie producer turned Clinton advance man in Paris, France, and St. Petersburg, Russia. The most unusual assignment to buy President Bush a pickup truck. Fishing in the remote Alaskan wilderness with former president George H. W. Bush, camping and hiking with First Lady Laura Bush.

These are the unique stories only a Secret Service agent can tell.

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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

During his twenty-two years with the US Secret Service, Special Agent Tim Wood investigated crimes against the US Treasury in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, and even the hinterlands of Idaho. He has investigated, arrested, and convicted over one hundred criminals.

He worked as both a case agent and an undercover agent, investigating the underbelly of Las Vegas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He wrote affidavits for arrest warrants and search warrants, testified in US district court as the lead investigator, undercover agent, and as a participating investigator. He has interviewed and investigated dozens of mentally ill suspects for threatening the life of the president of the United States.

He investigated drug addicts, conmen, counterfeiters, escaped federal prisoners, scam artists, Nigerian bank fraud rings, constitutionalists and freemen, and some of the most creative masters of credit card fraud to ever hit the streets of Las Vegas.

He was assigned to the Presidential Protective Division (PPD) at the White House, protecting the lives of Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He completed very complicated security advances to protect the life of the president of the United States both domestically and overseas. He conducted the security advance of President Clinton's 1996 Re-election Campaign Whistle Stop Train through five states.

He was a supervisor on PPD during the first two years of President George W. Bush's first term in office and was sued by the ACLU for his alleged actions against Iraq war protesters while protecting the president, which resulted in a nine-to-zero US Supreme Court decision in his favor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504983686
• Artikelnr.: 52607804