Michael Loewinger
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1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For a few weeks the handyman comes by to repair windows, fix doors, whatever it might be, and Mike and his wife were pretty happy with his work.
Until he got a call from the FBI one day asking if he knew who this person
I mean, what when I hear this story, it doesn't sound real.
It sounds like a movie, like noir Yeah.
I wish it was uh noir fiction.
It's the kind of thing that you're always worried about and you know, you think about in the middle of the night, uh is my family safe and am I doing all the right things?
And you think about that as like, Oh, that's so far fetched that would never happen.
But
here it did happen.
When I first heard this story, I thought it could be explained simply by the rise of extremist militia groups in America.
But the more I learned about FEMA, its secretive origins, its unhinged leadership under Reagan, the more I realized that the agency that was born of the paranoias of the twentieth century had been met with paranoia in return.
While reporting this series, I spoke to FEMA workers from just about every era of the agency.
And I've heard too many stories of threats from conspiracy theorists to chase them all down.
But for now, here's one more.
A FEMA official from the 90s told me that he'd seen FEMA head James Lee Witt walking around with a US Marshall Security detail, but never learned why.
After some digging, I discovered that in 1998 Wit was asked to meet with the FBI.
An agent told him that a militia group had been selling VHS tapes with his home address and information on his kids and wife.
The death threats were credible enough that Wit was told to stop taking public transportation to work early in the morning.
These plots against FEMA's leadership foreshadow its current day unraveling.
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