{"id":2710,"date":"2014-05-31T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T06:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2022-08-04T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:19:59","slug":"ex-dea-agent-mike-levine-interviews-peter-lance-on-wbais-expert-witness-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DEA Agent Michael Levine on Deal With The Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Ex-DEA%20Agent%20Michael%20Levine%20on%20Deal%20With%20The%20Devil\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expertwitnessradio.org\/site\/deal-with-the-devil\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2719\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-08-07 at 3.46.35 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-shot-2013-08-07-at-3.46.35-PM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold;\">DEAL WITH THE DEVIL<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We\u2019re fundraising for WBAI-FM in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering something very special \u2013 Peter Lance\u2019s book \u201cDeal with the Devil\u201d, along with an hour-long never aired anywhere interview. <strong>CLICK LOGO TO DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expertwitnessradio.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/devilbook.jpg\" alt=\"devilbook\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Yours for supporting WBAI<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.give2wbai.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PBC179\">Order it here at give2wbai.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbai.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WBAI.ORG<\/a>\u00a0to become a BAI buddy<\/p>\n<p>Visit Peter Lance\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About the guest:<\/p>\n<p>Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter and network correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career as a reporter for his hometown paper, The Newport, R.I. Daily News. There, while a student at Northeastern University in Boston, he won the coveted Sevellon Brown Award from the A.P. Managing Editors Association. Lance next moved to WNET, the PBS flagship in New York, where he won his first New York area Emmy and the Ohio State Award as a producer- reporter for Channel 13\u2032s news magazine THE 51ST STATE.<\/p>\n<p>Later, while working as a writer and producer for WABC-TV Lance won his second Emmy along with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism prize for WILLOWBROOK: THE PEOPLE VS. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, an expos\u00e9 on a notorious institution for the mentally retarded. He also was awarded The National Community Service Emmy for that same documentary.<\/p>\n<p>While getting his law degree, Lance worked as a Trial Preparation Assistant in the office of the District Attorney for New York County. Moving to ABC News as a field producer, Lance won his fourth Emmy for his investigation of an arson-for-profit ring in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago: \u201cArson and Profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 Lance became Investigative Correspondent for ABC News. For his very first investigative piece on 20\/20 Lance won his fifth Emmy for \u201cUnnecessary Surgery,\u201d an expos\u00e9 of unnecessary surgery in an Arkansas hospital. He won two more Emmy nominations in 1982 for 20\/20 investigative pieces on Formaldehyde \u201cThe Danger Within\u201d and toxic waste: \u201cDeadly Chemicals, Deadly Oil;\u201d a piece that also won the National Headliner Award.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next five years he covered hundreds of stories worldwide for ABC NEWS 20\/20, NIGHTLINE, and WORLD NEWS TONIGHT.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the first American crew into Indochina after the end of the Vietnam War. He chased rebel insurgents through the Plaine Des Jarres in Laos and members of the Gambino Family through the toxic wastelands of New Jersey. He tracked knife-happy surgeons in the Deep South and nuclear terrorists through the twisted streets of Antwerp. Then, in 1987, he took a break from non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Lance came to L.A. and began working as a writer and story editor for Michael Mann on two of his acclaimed NBC series: CRIME STORY and MIAMI VICE.\u2028In 1989 Lance became the co-executive producer and \u201cshow runner\u201d on the fourth season of WISEGUY for CBS and in 1993 he co-created MISSING PERSONS, for ABC. In recent years, he has served as a writer and consulting producer on such series as JAG (NBC) and THE SENTINEL (UPN).<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 Lance\u2019s first novel FIRST DEGREE BURN became a national best seller, ranking No. 24 on The Ingram A-List The Top 50 Requested Titles in Mystery- Detective Fiction. The film-noir mystery features FDNY Fire Marshal Eddie Burke.<\/p>\n<p>Later Lance adapted VEIL: THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA, Bob Woodward\u2019s best-seller on William Casey for HBO. For Showtime he wrote TERROR.NET, the story of Bradley Smith, the courageous Diplomatic Security agent responsible for helping to apprehend the world\u2019s most notorious terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>In the year 2000 Lance returned to investigative reporting with his best-selling non-fiction investigative biography: THE STINGRAY: Lethal Tactics of The Sole Survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 9\/11 attacks Lance began investigating the origins of the FBI\u2019s original probe of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef. After visiting Yousef\u2019s former bomb factory in the Philippines, he came away with 100\u2032s of pages of classified documents proving that Yousef had set the 9\/11 plot into motion as early as 1994. \u2028\u2028Lance then went back and examined the FBI\u2019s original efforts to stop Yousef in 1992 as he built the first WTC device. The result is his acclaimed investigative book from Harper Collins 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE.<\/p>\n<p>Lance followed that book with COVER UP in 2004. In it he established evidence that federal officials entered into an \u201cends\/means\u201d decision in 1996 that buried a treasure trove of al Qaeda-related intelligence in order to preserve a series of Mafia-related cases in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn).\u2028\u2028Lance presented probative evidence in the book that a senior Organized Crime Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI\u2019s New York Office (NYO) may have been in a corrupt relationship with a Colombo Family killer. It was the FBI\u2019s desire to prevent this potential scandal from tanking the mob cases, that led, Lance determined, to the al Qaeda evidence suppression.<\/p>\n<p>A year after COVER UP\u2019s publication the Brooklyn D.A. commenced a grant jury investigation inspired, in part, by Lance\u2019s revelations about the Supervisory Special Agent: R. Lindley DeVecchio. On March 30th, 2006 DeVecchio was indicted on four counts of second degree murder stemming from that D.A.\u2019s investigation. After an aborted two-week trial in Brooklyn, the case against DeVecchio was dismissed with the trial judge describing the FBI\u2019s 32 year relationship with Scarpa Sr. as \u201ca deal with the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In TRIPLE CROSS, the third book in Lance\u2019s 9\/11 investigative trilogy, he provides stunning evidence that senior FBI and Justice Dept. officials may have obstructed justice in their failure to monitor Ali A Mohamed, Osama bin Laden\u2019s principal spy inside the United. States. From the fall of 2007 until 2009, Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago waged a campaign to pulp the hardcover edition of TRIPLE CROSS and prevent the paperback edition from being published. After an exhaustive 20 month re-vetting of the book by HarperCollins it was published in June 2009 with 26 additional pages documenting Fitzgerald\u2019s censorship efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In April, 2010 Lance was appointed Research Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lance\u2019s profile of former FBI undercover asset Emad Salem, \u201cThe Spy Who Came In For The Heat,\u201d was the lead non-fiction article in Playboy magazine\u2019s September, 2010 issue.<\/p>\n<p>For the January, 2011 issue Lance reported untold story of the Pentagon\u2019s censorship of \u201cOperation Dark Heart,\u201d the Afghan war memoir of Bronze Star winner Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer. Earlier for playboy.com Lance chronicled his battle with Fitzgerald in a piece entitled \u201cThe Chilling Effect.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2011 Lance published a thirteen part series in The Santa Barbara News press documenting his investigation into alleged corrupt practices by the top DUI officer for the SBPD. The probe led to a grand jury mandating the installation of video in all Santa Barbara PD units and Lance\u2019s investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Following the termination of the Lin DeVecchio murder trial, Lance continued his examination of the FBI\u2019s relationship with Gregory Scarpa Sr. After obtaining a copy of the DeVecchio trial transcript which had been under seal, Lance uncovered new probative evidence of FBI misconduct in its more than three decade relationship with the Colombo killer. In 2012 Lance got access to more than 1,100 heretofore secret files on Scarpa Sr.\u2019s decades-long run as an FBI Top Echelon informant. They prove that in the 12 years ex-SSA Lin DeVecchio acted as Scarpa Sr.\u2019s FBI contacting agent, Senior, who was a hyper-violent capo with the Colombo crime family, was responsible for twenty-five separate homicides.<\/p>\n<p>In April, 2012 Lance\u2019s latest novel, a thriller about the hunt for a serial killer STRANGER 456 was published worldwide by amazon.com and in June, 2012 he wrote the Foreward to a new updated edition of the 1951 true crime classic MURDER, INC. by Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder.<\/p>\n<p>After interviewing dozens of sources and combing through more than 20,000 pages of trial transcripts, FBI 302 and 209 memos Lance\u2019s definitive study of the Scarpa-DeVecchio relationship DEAL WITH THE DEVIL will be published by HarperCollins July 2nd, 2013. On April 8th, 2013 Tenacity Media Books will publish a new edition of Lance\u2019s best-selling 1997 thriller from Penguin-Berkley, \u201cFirst Degree Burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Ex-DEA%20Agent%20Michael%20Levine%20on%20Deal%20With%20The%20Devil\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>DEAL WITH THE DEVIL We\u2019re fundraising for WBAI-FM in NYC. We\u2019re offering something very special \u2013 Peter Lance\u2019s book \u201cDeal with the Devil\u201d, along with an hour-long never aired anywhere interview. CLICK LOGO TO DOWNLOAD \u00a0 Yours for supporting WBAI Order it here at give2wbai.org Visit\u00a0WBAI.ORG\u00a0to become a BAI buddy Visit Peter Lance\u2019s\u00a0WEBSITE About the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[125,330,467,122,1223,400,151,391,372,383,114,172,1211,388,454,387,109,380,110,119,401,395,382,113,386,252,106,108,393,470,375,390,311,377,373,392,379,249,402,111,115,381,116,466,374,462,465,397,399,406,118,105,167,384,385,107,376,126,1219,1220,468,469,121,461,471,398,396,251,250,112,1214,1222,463,389,117,394,371,464,378,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15538,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/15538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}