Gary Aldrich worked for the FBI for more than thirty years, twenty-five of them as Special Agent. Specializing in white-collar crime, especially fraud and political corruption, he also pursued drug dealers and mobsters, and was at the shoot-out with the Symbionese Liberation Army (kidnappers of Patty Hearst). For the last five years of his distinguished career he was one of two FBI agents assigned to the White House, responsible for performing background checks on White House personnel. He retired in 1995.
