![]() Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, makes the busts, and carries out the arrests. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. And of those, less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. ![]() FBI agents then took the Dannon brothers into custody.The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history. 223 caliber rifles and sold all of them to undercover agents. The case culminated in May of 2019, when the brothers are said in court records to have made five untraceable. Investigators in a federal complaint stated Moyad Dannon learned the buyer wanted to ship the weapons to the Middle East, where they’d be used by ISIS.ĭespite learning of their ultimate use and destination of the weapons, a news release from the FBI said, the brothers made and tried to sell 55 more fully automatic “ghost guns” to the buyer under the belief the weapons would be shipped overseas to be used by the designated terrorist organization.įor several months throughout the following year, investigators said Moyad Dannon expressed numerous times to an undercover agent his desire to travel from Indiana to ISIS-controlled areas of Syria to provide his knowledge of firearms and assist in the fight against the United States. ![]() to market the rifle to a potential buyer who was working with the FBI. Moyad Dannon later accompanied the agent to the southwest border of the U.S. 223 caliber rifles in 2018 and selling them to an undercover agent. "Just as we’ve done in the fight against terrorism, the Justice Department is committed to prevention - stopping gun violence before it happens by cracking down on the illegal production and trafficking of ghost guns,” Monaco’s statement said.Īccording to court documents, the brothers began manufacturing fully automatic. In a statement about the sentences, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the brothers “fused together” two grave threats posed to the United States today: Terrorist organizations and illegal firearms. His brother, Mahde Dannon, 24, was sentenced in 2021 to 20 years in prison for the same charges. Moyad Dannon, 25, received 16 years and eight months in federal prison on Thursday followed by a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to providing resources to a foreign terrorist organization. ![]() Two brothers from Fishers have been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of trying to make and sell machine guns to ISIS in 2019, according to the FBI.
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