Category: War Stories with Jim Cavanaugh

Any time a bank balked or seemed suspicious, Roggio or one of his underlings would drop the phony CIA cover story on them.

Roggio was a shadowy figure. He had a criminal record for impersonation of an attorney, and there were fraud allegations, a bankruptcy investigation.

One day I had been out working cases only to return to a package on my desk. Tony was gone and I had no idea what was in the brown paper bag. A small note was left beside it that read, “A lady found this and thinks it may be a bomb. Please check it out.”

I was called out to sea once with the Coast Guard to board a sailing yacht where a doctor was found dead.