Jeffrey S. Sallet

Jeffrey S. Sallet is an American law enforcement officer who formerly served as the Associate Deputy Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation.[1] He is known to have served as the case agent on the FBI La Cosa Nostra investigation of Joseph Massino,[2] a former boss of the Bonanno organized crime family in New York.[3] In Boston he supervised the arrest of notorious Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger after one of the longest and largest manhunts in U.S. history.[3]

Jeffrey S. Sallet
Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
In office
February 1, 2021 – May 23, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byPaul Abbate
Succeeded byBrian C. Turner
Personal details
Born
Jeffrey S. Sallet
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst (BBA)

He currently serves as Forensic & Integrity Services partner at Ernst & Young[4] in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]

Early life and education

Sallet earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[4][6] He is licensed both as a certified public accountant and in financial forensics.[6]

Career

Sallet started his FBI career as a special agent in 1997 in the New York Field Office.[7] From 2005 until 2007, Mr. Sallet was a supervisory special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters.[7] In 2012, Mr. Sallet was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Boston Field Office.[7]

He was promoted again in 2014, to the chief of the Public Corruption/Civil Rights Section in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters.[7] He was named special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Office in 2015[8] and moved to lead the Chicago Field Office in 2017.[7][9]

He served as Associate Executive Assistant Director of the Finance and Facilities Division, operating in a chief financial officer (CFO) capacity at the FBI.[7]

In February 2021, Jeffrey Sallet was named as the associate deputy director by 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher A. Wray.[1]

Notability

After the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, Sallet worked as a financial investigator to help identify funding for the attacks and tracked Al Qaeda's financial assets.[3]

Jeffrey led the coordinated law enforcement response and investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, which resulted in the identification and capture of the suspects in approximately 104 hours.[10]

Sallet received the Executive Office for United States Attorneys Director's Award in 2005.[11]

Depictions in fiction and non-fiction

Jeffrey Sallet has been featured in TV shows such as - Inside the Hunt For the Boston Bombers (2014) of National Geographic Channel[6] and Gangsters: America's Most Evil (2012).[12]

References
  1. "Jeffrey S. Sallet Named FBI Associate Deputy Director". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  2. "FBI hiring as the Obama Era nears end". The Louisiana Weekly. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  3. "FBI brass pipeline from New Orleans to Chicago". ABC News. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  4. "Jeffrey S. Sallet - Biography at Ernst and Young". Ernst & Young. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  5. "Accounting Alumnus Named Partner at EY Forensic & Integrity Services Practice". Isenberg School of Management. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  6. "New Chicago FBI boss has fought terrorism, mob, public corruption". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  7. "Jeffrey S. Sallet Named Associate Executive Assistant Director of the Finance and Facilities Division". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  8. "Jeffrey S. Sallet Named Special Agent in Charge of New Orleans Division". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  9. "Jeffrey S. Sallet Named Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Division". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  10. "Jeffrey S. Sallet - Biography". resconnola.com. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  11. "FBI agent with expertise in organized crime activity will lead New Orleans office". FOX8Live.com. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  12. "Jeffrey S. Sallet - IMDB". IMDb. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
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