Inside the FBI Milwaukee Division
Published on June 13, 2023 – The Wisconsin Law Journal
A lot has changed in the Badger State and throughout the world in the past seven years since the FBI Milwaukee Division hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new state-of-the-art secured Milwaukee Field Office in June 2016.
Mission priorities of the Field Office have also changed dramatically over the last few decades.
In the 1980s, the FBI Milwaukee Division was keenly focused on combating organized crime, investigating the Milwaukee Mafia and just years later Jeffrey Dahmer. Not too long after that, terrorism became a very acute concern for the United States with the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the Milwaukee Division has played a significant role in terrorism-related investigations while still investigating and making traditional crimes such as: public corruption, cyber, violent crimes, and health care fraud.
When asked by the Wisconsin Law Journal why there are so many public corruption and health care fraud news headlines out of Illinois, but not as many in Wisconsin, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Robert Botsch said …