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BIOGRAPHY OF DARLENE FITZGERALD PRICE
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A Native Kentuckian, Darlene was raised in Northern Kentucky until the age of thirteen, and then moved to McCreary County, where she graduated from high school. She is the youngest of six children. Her father was one of the first Navy Seals as a member of the elite "Frog Man Unit" during WWII, and served in the South Pacific and in the battle of Guadalcanal. Darlene's mother and father were married for 57 years before her mother died several years ago. She remains close to her father. Darlene is also a happily married 47 year old grandmother. Her husband, Austin Price, is a local attourney and veteran.
Darlene 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 (both on active duty and in the reserves), but as a U.S. Customs Special Agent fighting on the front lines of the War on Drugs. Darlene completed her B.S. Degree in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University by winning a full ROTC Scholarship, and a Masters in Secondary Education while on active duty in the military. Darlene has just finished the second year of her Jurist Doctorate Degree while working part time as an investigator/law clerk in a Kentucky law office.
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 both in 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 confiscated, and hundreds of illegal firearms removed from the hands of violent criminals.
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2008 As a Customs Special Agent, Darlene was also a cross-designated Secret Service Augmentee 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 Fox News, C-Span and MSNBC, as well as other television and national radio shows. Several news articles have been published about her National Security Whistleblower story. Darlene has written for the national and international press as well as given live testimony before Congress on these issues. She is the co-author of the book "BorderGate", which details her brave fight against corruption within the Department of Homeland Security. She has had the opportunity to liaison 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 National Security Whistleblower issues.
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| Dear Colleagues,
It is a real honor to share my personal support for Darlene Fitzgerald Price’s Senate campaign. In my job as legal director of the Government Accountability Project, over the last 29 years I have staked my credibility and volunteered my time to help over 4,000 "whistleblowers" -- those employees who use free speech rights to challenge abuses of power that betray the public trust. None has been more worthy than Darlene Fitzgerald Price, whose relentless pursuit of government corruption sustaining national security threats has not let up since the bureaucracy forced her out for "committing the truth." Our country desperately needs public servants to replace the politicians in Congress, and Darlene personifies the concept of public service.
I have known Darlene for more than eight years. Her compelling story of a modern day Serpico fighting law enforcement corruption is a microcosm why I’ve dedicated my professional life to helping whistleblowers speak truth to power. Insiders like Darlene bravely fight government waist, fraud, abuse and corruption by risking their careers and reputation. The most courageous, such as Darlene, risk their lives. She even took her agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to federal civil court where she and co-plaintiff Sandy Nunn made history in a landmark case -- the first time a sitting judge took the stand and testified against federal government corruption. Why? Corrupt DHS officials refused to find out what was in five suspicious railroad tanker cars coming over the border, potentially loaded with narcotics, bombs or other weapons for terrorist arsenals.
Darlene is not just gutsy. She is as tough as they come, which is essential to fight the corruption within Congress. She proved it on the bureaucratic line of fire. Few whistleblowers in cases of this magnitude ever survive this kind of fight intact. They become broken, embittered victims who are financially ruined, or develop serious health conditions. Most lose everything, including their families through divorce. These tactics are very successful in making a pathetic example out of whistleblowers, so others will keep their mouths shut.
Not with Darlene. Her relentless battle to defend freedom of speech where it counts has gained a step, if anything. As an author and nationally recognized leader of the whistleblower community, she is always there to defend our nation from the most serious threats to America’s freedom -- abuses of government power sustained by secrecy.
It is time to send a Ms. Smith to Washington. We need corruption war heroes in the Senate.
Sincerely,
TOM DEVINE, ESQUIRE
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