Darlene Fitzgerald has more than 20 years of successful experience in criminal justice: Military, federal law enforcement, and private industry. She is an honorably discharged, decorated veteran who served her country not only as a Captain in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps, but as a U.S. Customs Special Agent fighting on the front lines of the War on Drugs.

Her knowledge and experience includes most facets of criminal law, complicated conspiracy investigations, federal and civil court procedures, and the rules of evidence.   Darlene has testified as an expert witness in both federal and state courts. She has worked closely with federal and state prosecutors for many years to obtain arrests and convictions on numerous high-level criminals. This involved the investigation of complex conspiracies of members of Colombian and Mexican organized crime cartels. These

subjects were engaged in large-scale narcotics smuggling and distribution, as well as money laundering. As a result of Darlene's work, huge quantities of narcotics have been seized, millions of dollars in U.S. Currency have been seized, and hundreds of illegal firearms have been removed from the hands of violent criminals.

As a Customs Special Agent Darlene was also a cross-designated Secret Service Agent for the Department of Treasury. She has protected heads of state, Senators Bob Dole and Hillary Clinton, foreign dignitaries, and other political officials.

Darlene has worked extensively in the field of Counter-Terrorism as it relates to U.S. Borders and Ports of Entry. She has appeared numerous times in the national and local media including "The O'Reilly Factor" and "C-Span" as well as other television and national radio shows. Numerous news articles have been published about her story. Darlene has written for the national and international press as well.

She has had the opportunity to liaise with ambassadors, diplomatic officials, attaches, high-level military officers, business leaders, the media, and the public at large, drawing on her vast knowledge and expertise of law enforcement, Counter-Terrorism, and Whistleblower issues.

She is currently attending William Howard Taft School of Law, working to complete her Juris Doctorate Degree. She plans to put her law degree to good use in protecting the rights of National Security Whistleblowers in the future.  Darlene is also the Vice President of Sig-International (Security Investigative Group International).

 
 
Peter Ferrara was born in Charleston, West Virginia two days after World War II D-Day. He received his secondary school diploma from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass and his B.F.A. from New York University’s Film School. After graduation, he served as a New York State Parole Officer. During that period and for several years after, he also performed as a folk singer/humorist in clubs and colleges all over the Northeast. He writes songs that are uniquely his own, falling somewhere between his two musical heroes: Tom Lehrer and Bob Dylan.

Upon leaving the NY Executive Department, Division of Parole, he made intermission films for Home Box Office and also produced a record called “Goofy Gold” which sold well enough to pay for his move to the beach at Malibu, California. He joined the CBS Television Network in 1978 as a Writer/Producer in the Advertising and Promotion Department. There he did numerous promos and radio spots for CBS network television shows, specials, and movies of the week. He was hired away by ABC’s flagship station KABC, the most profitable television station in America, where he was responsible for On-Air Promotion.

He won several awards for his work and was again hired away, this time by the NBC Television Network, where he did all of their radio promotion through his own company. He also began to write and direct television specials for HBO
and Showtime, and did movie work with his comedy Guru Jonathan Winters, Martin Mull, and Tommy Chong of “Cheech and Chong,” among others. He also directed Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams, Michael Richards, Milton
Berle, Phyllis Diller, Mort Sahl, Louise DuArt, Jeff Altman, and many others for cable comedy specials. When he got married, it was at Jonathan Winters’ house, with Jonathan as his Best Man. After toiling away in Hollywood for many years, he and his wife eventually moved back East, first to New York and then to their current residence within the Daniel Boone National River and Recreation Area in the small town of Stearns, Kentucky, on the Tennessee border. He lives on a golf course where he has been known to lose his balls.

Peter writes a column on anything and everything for the local paper—The McCreary County Record—called “Write On.” It can be accessed on-line at “TheMcCrearyRecord.Com”. He also does a weekly two hour radio show called “Just For Fun” on radio station WHAY 98.3FM, in Whitley City, Kentucky. The “live” show can be found on the Internet at “HAY98.com” Tuesday nights from 6 to 8 p.m., and is repeated Saturday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. He and his wife have no kids, no pets, few household plants, and no distractions. Because of this, they both have a lot of time to contemplate what lies ahead as they watch the world going to hell in a hand basket. It is to slow down that descent that he is pleased to have co-authored “Bordergate” with Darlene Fitzgerald.