Mike McKinney
Retired FBI Agent (24 years)
Significant experience as a Supervisor and “Street Agent” working major cases targeting white collar crime, corruption, government fraud, cold-case homicides, money-laundering, and civil rights violations
Career leader and 20 year specialist within the FBI’s Undercover Program, including personally running the FBI’s Undercover Certification Course
Responsible for planning, running, and/or directly participating in more than 50 highly sensitive FBI undercover operations targeting corruption, fraud, foreign counterintelligence, drugs, violent crimes, and mortgage fraud
Created and served as the lead instructor for an Advanced Covert Training Program
Director’s Award for Excellence in Criminal Investigations in 2008 - one of the highest honors in the FBI - as the Supervisor in a major investigation targeting corruption
Managed the FBI’s Corporate Fraud Task Force as a Supervisor in the Economic Crimes Unit at FBI Headquarters, and also managed global complex investigations targeting insider trading, Ponzi schemes, private equity/hedge funds, foreign exchange market (forex) and other investment frauds
Buffalo Division SWAT Team (Operator and Breacher), and Atlanta SWAT Team Supervisory Coordinator
FBI Firearms Instructor since 1993
Civil Rights Coordinator, Informant Coordinator, and Safe Streets Task Force Coordinator
Trained in the Reid Technique of Investigative Interviewing & Advanced Interrogation
Instructor for Police Departments regarding Civil Rights Investigations, Color of Law, and Pattern & Practice issues
EEO Investigator at the FBI
Black Belt in Tae-Kwon Do
Accounting & Business Degrees from Otterbein University in 1986
1986 Division III All-American in Basketball
Bank Manager & Mortgage Loan Officer in Columbus, Ohio for five years before joining the FBI
