About this episode

Mark Sewell discusses his experiences as an FBI agent dealing with organized crime and military impersonators.

He was a rookie FBI agent, barely off his first assignment, when they handed him the number-one grossing strip club in America... and the millions in cash it was skimming straight to the Gambino crime family in New York. That was just the beginning. Mark Sewell went from an oil refinery in Houston to the Marine Corps to twenty years in the FBI, working organized crime, public corruption, dirty cops, and a rape covered up from a police officer's own dinner table. Then he became the Bureau's go-to on stolen valor, hunting down the men who wear uniforms they never earned, starting with a fake Marine who slipped onto an Air Force base two months after 9/11, and what was hidden in that man's house. We get into how the game is really played: how you flip a witness, why the best agents have the best informants, what the media never understood about the Gold Club, and how a lie about military service can end in a felony conviction. Mark's book on the Gold Club case is out now, with his stolen valor book on the way. Don't be the one who misses new episodes of The Tegan Broadwater Podcast. Subscribe and turn on notifications. This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally…

People in this episode

Host: Tegan Broadwater

Guest: Mark Sewell

Topics covered

• organized crime
• law enforcement
• military service
• corruption
• true crime
• interviews

Keywords

• FBI
• organized crime
• Gambino
• Gold Club
• stolen valor
• Mark Sewell
• true crime

Sponsors

Blackland Distillery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, Gambino crime family

Books & works: Gold Club, stolen valor book

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