The Con and the FBI Agent

David Nadolski

doi:10.5771/9781538159606

The Con and the FBI Agent

An Unlikely Alliance

Published 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538159606
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-5959-0
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-5960-6
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

While FBI Agent David Nadolski risked his career, his informant, Anthony Romano risked his life to quash one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century.

During the 1990’s Boston was a world leader in arts, culture, higher education, and medicine. It was also a world leader in organized crime.

In this exciting account, former FBI supervisory special agent David Nadolski tells the story of an unlikely alliance between two diametrically opposed people—the con and the FBI agent. While investigating a break-in at the Stone Library in Quincy, MA that houses the personal book collection of John Quincy Adams, the FBI gets a call from prison inmate, Anthony (Tony) Romano, requesting to meet with the case agent on the burglary. Romano provides a helpful tip that leads to the apprehension of the thief and the recovery of four priceless, historically significant books. Recognizing Tony’s potential, Nadolski begins to cultivate a relationship in hopes of recruiting Romano as a criminal informant.

Nadolski recruits Romano to play a very dangerous game—infiltrate the Merlino gang, controlled by Carmello Merlino, a career criminal who specialized in bank robberies, armored car robberies, and home invasions. The Merlino gang also became suspects in the largest art theft in history which took place at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains unsolved to this day. Romano, a former armed robber, agrees. With sights set on the Loomis Fargo Armored Car Company money vault, located south of Boston, the Merlino gang gets to work. Little did they know, Romano, at great personal risk, was a wearing a wire and recording their planning sessions.

After two years of being joined at the hip and learning to trust each other unconditionally, special agent Nadolski and Romano run a successful criminal investigation and undercover sting operation to catch four dangerous criminals poised to launch one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century.

Schlagworte

White collar crime Boston Informant TRC Auto Electric Informant Development Anthony Romano FBI Investigations FBI informant Bank Heists Gang activity Gangs Boston Loomis Heist Break-in Confidential Informant Criminal Investigation Carmello Merlino retired FBI agent Loomis Fargo Heist

Keywords

organized crime robbery

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i–viii Preface i–viii
- Contents
- Prologue
1–6 1 Bad Choices, Bad Days 1–6
7–12 2 Like Father, Like Son 7–12
13–22 3 The FBI Academy 13–22
23–34 4 Life on the Inside 23–34
35–60 5 Doing My Own Time 35–60
61–68 6 Tunnel Vision 61–68
69–84 7 The Promised Land 69–84
85–106 8 The Library Card 85–106
107–110 9 Paths Converge 107–110
111–124 10 Heartbreak in Cambridge 111–124
125–140 11 Parole 125–140
141–146 12 Undercover and Underdressed 141–146
147–154 13 Stuff Is Getting Real 147–154
155–180 14 Getting Wired 155–180
181–192 15 Best Pancakes in Town 181–192
193–198 16 “Stealing” a Van 193–198
199–206 17 The Dry Run 199–206
207–226 18 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing 207–226
227–232 19 Tony’s New Digs 227–232
233–240 20 Team Huddle 233–240
241–248 21 Will She Stay or Will She Go? 241–248
249–252 22 Finding a Steady Rhythm 249–252
253–258 23 On Edge 253–258
259–272 24 Hammer Time 259–272
273–278 Epilogue 273–278
279–280 Index 279–280

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