Scott Curtis

Scott Curtis is an American former FBI agent known for having spearheaded the largest single-day arrest of 127 organized-crime members in history—a record that still holds. Also a government-corruption expert, he has worked in both government and in the private sector as an investigator, holding senior positions as a corporate-compliance executive.

Scott Curtis is founder-CEO of FLEO Investigations, operating in the New York City, New York State, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania areas. He is also a former Associate Director/Global Investigations & Compliance for a worldwide professional-services consulting company and has been a Vice President of Investigations & Compliance for a publicly traded sports-and-entertainment company. Most recently, he has worked on the national Opioid Task Force in concert with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, the FBI, the DEA, the IRS, Homeland Security, and associated agencies investigating Medicaid fraud.

A graduate of the United States Military Academy (West Point), Scott Curtis is a former infantry captain (variously a platoon leader and Commander) and a 100-percent service-disabled military veteran. In the course of his law-enforcement career, Scott Curtis successfully disrupted dozens of high-profile criminal enterprises, quarterbacking investigations that dismantled several criminal enterprises in and around New York City, His remarkable efforts led to the conviction of hundreds of sophisticated criminals—with emphasis on the storied Colombo crime family—when he spearheaded the largest single-day arrest in U.S. history of 127 organized-crime members, effectively dismantling the Colombos’ ruling administration. In just five years in Philadelphia, Scott Curtis was the driving force behind criminal convictions of over a dozen Pennsylvania public officials and business executives engaged in pay-to-play corruption, including mayors of the state’s third and fifth largest cities (Allentown and Reading).

He planned (and usually personally) executed hundreds of arrests, searches, and surveillance operations of violent, highly sophisticated criminals with such memorable monikers as “Junior Lollipops,” “Fish” Marra, “Tommy Shots,” “Fat Larry,” et al. He also busted brokerage-boiler rooms hijacked by the mob and defrauding thousands of more than $40 million. Flipping violent criminals into cooperating witnesses, Scott Curtis has an intimate familiarity with the witness-protection program.

In his tenure in the FBI, Scott Curtis solved more than ten cold-case homicides including the murder of a police officer identified by the New York Daily News as one of the city’s Top Ten unsolved crimes of the 20th Century. With a shovel in his hand, he personally found the body of Colombo underboss Billy Cutolo, missing for more than nine years. Curtis is an expert on the history/rituals of the mafia: inductions, moral code, murder protocols, and such rackets as loansharking, car theft, bank burglaries, labor union/construction. Also: confidential informants manipulating agents. Scott Curtis has served as something of a mentor, too, to flipped mafia wiseguys connected to scores of baseball-batterings and murders. Men who are out of jail and struggling to stay legit.

Curtis is a sought-after expert on criminal matters, frequently solicited by television-news programs to speak about ongoing homicide investigations. He has been interviewed on the subjects of organized crime and public corruption in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, and the Intercept, his analysis appearing in other major newspapers. He is also a frequent law-enforcement analyst on WFMZ news. An alumnus of the Veterans in Media & Entertainment AT&T program and the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Writing program, he has experience consulting for and writing scripted television.