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b"The Pretender - Marc Ruskin FBI undercover agent Remember the name Marc Ruskin: because if you run into him, chances are he will introduce himself as Alex Perez, H. Marc Renard, or Sal Morelli \\u2013 just a few of his FBI undercover personas. Marc Ruskin started his career as an assistant DA in Brooklyn and left it all behind to join the FBI Academy. It didn\\u2019t take him long to become an FBI undercover agent. His first big undercover case landed him in Wall Street busting up trading scams. That case went down in flames when a former colleague recognized his true identity and blew his cover. His next assignments proved to be much more dangerous. Marc embedded himself with mobsters, corrupt public officials, terrorists, and powerful drug dealers. Of course, we can\\u2019t cover his entire 27 year career here on this podcast. For that you\\u2019ll need to check out his new book titled \\u201cThe Pretender.\\u201d It\\u2019s a great read. What we will do is talk about a few cases that were so intense, it had me grip the book so tight that I almost fused the pages together. Marc Ruskin\\u2019s next assignment was to bust up a fraudulent documents scheme in New York City. I'm not talking about fake IDs \\u2013 there\\u2019s a difference. These fraudulent IDs are the real thing. If a police runs a fraudulent driver\\u2019s license, it actually checks out in their database. Marc told me terrorists, mob guys, fugitives were being arrested and had all kinds of real documents in their wallets under fake names. The FBI didn't have any leads. First, they had to find the source of these fraudulent documents. Marc says that some of these fraudulent driver\\u2019s licenses were selling for as much as a thousand dollars on the streets.\\xa0It wasn\\u2019t until a tip from a twenty-something-year old man named John Sultan that led the FBI to a shabby travel agency in the Bronx called Holy Land Travel. The travel agency was a front led by Palestinian immigrant named Mahmoud Noubani.\\n\\nThe Pretender Marc Ruskin FBI Undercover You can find The Pretender on Amazon.com or at your local bookstore. Also a special thanks out to St. Martin\\u2019s Press for letting me share Marc\\u2019s story with you.\\nBuy the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3dRXbgl \\nYou can also follow Marc Ruskin on Twitter\\xa0https://twitter.com/mhruskin\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"