Scott Curtis(XII)

Scott Curtis is a former FBI Special Agent and United States Military Academy at West Point graduate best known for having spearheaded the largest single-day takedown of organized-crime members in U.S. history, 127 arrests on January 20, 2011, a record that still stands. Also a writer and a frequent analyst on crime, manhunts, and the inner workings of the FBI for CNN, NewsNation, Today (Australia), and WFMZ-TV since 2022, he has been featured on the FBI Retired Case File Review podcast (2019) and is routinely quoted as an expert on organized crime and government corruption in such venues as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, New York magazine, and The Intercept. From 1997 to 2013 he was assigned to the FBI's Colombo Crime Family Unit, quarterbacking investigations that disrupted several criminal enterprises in and around New York City leading to the conviction of hundreds of criminals. He personally located and dug up the body of Colombo underboss Billy Cutolo, missing for more than 9 years. A weaponry and tactical specialist as a former infantry captain, platoon leader, and Company Commander, he is also an acknowledged expert on the use of confidential informants, flipping violent criminals into cooperators, and witness protection. The New York Daily News called Curtis "a hard-charging FBI agent" and "scourge of the Colombo crime family" who "left the crime family in ruins after more than a decade of mob-busting."