Scott Curtis
 
 
 
 
 
I personally dug up a guy missing nine years out in the woods in Long Island. Yeah, that was exciting. There’s no dead bodies in this corruption case but believe me, it was just as exciting.
— Scott Curtis
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SCOTT CURTIS/MEDIA APPEARANCES & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

SCOTT CURTIS is a sought-after expert on criminal matters, frequently solicited by television-news programs to speak about homicide investigations in the headlines including the prison break and fugitive investigation of a convicted murder and the pending prosecution of the University of Idaho killings. He is a frequent law-enforcement/crime analyst for WFMZ-TV’s 69News.

Curtis has been interviewed on the subjects of  organized crime and public corruption on podcasts and in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, and the Intercept, his quotes also appearing in such major newspapers as the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and the Washington Examiner.

A former fellow of the Veterans in Media & Entertainment AT&T program and alumnus (and current teaching assistant) in the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project, Scott Curtis also has experience consulting for scripted television.

SPEAKING TO LAW-ENFORCEMENT GROUPS

Scott Curtis is known for his artful presentations on the subjects of organized crime, securities fraud, public corruption, and waste/fraud/abuse involved in public contracts and construction projects. He can also speak to corruption, compliance, conflicts of interest, ethics, waste, fraud and abuse, embezzlement, kickbacks, bribery, extortion, misconduct and hostile work environments. Also: mail, wire, bank, and securities fraud schemes and transnational crime groups and local gangs, including current and emerging threats, trends, and criminal schemes.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER/PANELIST

Given the abiding interest of so many Americans in True Crime, Scott Curtis also accepts bookings from groups who care to learn more about his unmatched personal experiences with (and the threats posed by) criminals and organized-crime

 
 
 

Scott Curtis

"That’s why you see some of these senior mafia guys getting arrested repeatedly. They have to have their hands on all these minute details of [every] scheme."

— Scott Curtis, Wall Street Journal

 

groups, whether as a keynote speaker (with or without a riveting PowerPoint presentation) or sitting on/moderating a panel.

He’s got myriad stories about his work with undercover informants and the handling of other fascinating criminals he’s run across in a long and storied career. He’s able to offer such inside details as how to perform surveillance and evading countersurveillance; the art of interrogation, and more. Curtis is also an expert on the history/rituals of the Italian mafia: inductions, moral code, murder protocols, and all the varied rackets.