Stacey Whitaker

And so I read, that was the first time I had read his report about this virus.

And so basically I had decided to go out and meet with her.

I took a computer forensic examiner from our office with me so that we could look at her computer.

We could verify that she was in fact infected on her computer with this virus, which we did.

And so because of that, because she was infected with malware, we were then able to open investigation, even though

It was such a small amount of money that we were talking about.

It was very slow and very frustrating.

Very slow and frustrating.

So one thing I would say about, I think this case is a very good example of the evolution of the FBI in many ways as well.

So in the beginning, in 2007, that was a time when we in the FBI, we didn't necessarily work hand in hand with private sector.

So even though I ended up talking with Liam in 2007, we shared some information a little bit, but then we kind of went our separate ways.

We didn't talk again until 2012 because that was kind of the way that we did things at that time in the FBI.

We didn't share information too much with the private sector.

We would do subpoenas, we would do search warrants, and we would gather information, but we didn't necessarily work hand in hand like we do today.

Also at that time, we didn't necessarily work very many investigations that touched overseas either.

So again, I was a new agent in the FBI and I opened this investigation and pretty quickly was able to determine that all the money was going overseas.

I was tracking the money, was figuring out where it was getting picked up in different countries in Europe.

And when I figured that out and I was talking with the other agents on my squad, their reaction was basically, oh, you need to close that case.

Again, this is in 2007, and we just didn't have as much visibility and as much partnership with other countries as we do today.

And so I refused to close the case.