Quid pro quo: public corruption

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Michelle Pickens chats with FBI Confidential co-host Becky Bruce about public corruption investigations at the Salt Lake City Division. As long as people have had elected office and government jobs, people have been willing to try to bribe them. But that's just one type of public corruption the FBI investigates. In order to be consider public corruption, there has to be a "quid pro quo" - this for that - the public official, whether a government employee or an elected leader, gives something in exchange for some kind of gain. Most of the time, Agent Pickens says the FBI gets involved when someone else, often a law enforcement agency on the local or state level, alerts them to a potential problem. The corruption doesn't necessarily have to involve a position of high power. In one case, Angel Segura was using his position as an employee at an airport contractor to smuggle drugs into and out of Salt Lake City. In another case, a civilian working at Hill Air Force Base in Utah was taking kickbacks and bribes for diverting contracts to a specific company. In that case, it was Jose Mendez's own record-keeping that helped convict him - he was tracking his payments on a spreadsheet. You can sign up for the next round of the FBI Citizens' Academy in Salt Lake City. Applications are due by July 31, 2018. You can apply here , or nominate someone to attend here . Any questions should be directed to madams2@fbi.gov .

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Quid pro quo: public corruption is an episode from FBI Confidential by KSL Newsradio.

This episode is 12:15 long.

This episode was published on Jul 5, 2018.

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