FBI EXPERT

Becoming a Special Agent in 1973, Mr. Wedick's accomplishments include initiating the FBI's "OPFOPEN" investigation that targeted globe-trotting conmen using "offshore" banks, undercover roles in the ABSCAM probe where members of Congress were prosecuted for soliciting bribes and prosecuting the sons of New York mobster JOE BONANNO... Employed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] for almost 35-years, JAMES J. WEDICK has been qualified as an expert in U.S. District Court on a number of occasions. As a senior investigator, his credentials include handling some of the FBI's most complicated and sensitive investigations, many involving the use of Criminal Informants [CIs], Cooperating Witnesses [CWs], and/or FBI Undercover Agents in order to initiate investigations, analyze intelligence, and/or wear electronic devices in order to record and/or monitor conversations and collect evidence... And because he spent 24-plus years as a street agent [before being promoted to supervise a..

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