First hour of the show today, Kerby chats with Rob Warren who tells us about how it might be quite easy to get Mexico to pay for the wall that president elect Donald Trump has talked about.
Second hour we hear from Rod Gragg, award-winning author of more than twenty books on topics in American history. He tells us about his book, My Brother’s Keeper: Christians who Risked all to protect Jewish targets from the Nazi Holocaust.
Mr. Warren transferred to the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS in 1994 and graduated from their Special Agent Basic Training program. Over the next 22 years, he investigated a wide variety of white collar fraud cases involving human trafficking, bankruptcy fraud, charter school embezzlements, identity theft, and marijuana distribution, along with traditional cases involving income tax evasion. From 2001 to 2005, he served as a supervisory special agent in Milwaukee (WI), and ended his career as a senior analyst in the Financial Crimes Section at IRS Headquarters in DC. Mr. Warren received numerous awards during his career, including three U.S Department of Justice Awards for Public Service presented by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. He retired from the IRS in 2016.
Mr. Warren worked for the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand prior to joining the IRS.
Mr. Warren holds both an MBA and an undergraduate degree in accounting (summa cum laude) from the University of Maryland at College Park. He graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco (GA). He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), and earned the Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) designation from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Mr. Warren is now a Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting in The Busch School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America. Mr. Warren and his wife, Mary (an adjunct professor in the Busch School), have five children.
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER unfolds powerful stories of Christians from across denominations who gave everything they had to save the Jewish people from the evils of the Holocaust. This unlikely group of believers, later honored by the nation of Israel as "The Righteous Among the Nations," includes ordinary teenage girls, pastors, priests, a German army officer, a former Italian fascist, an international spy, and even a princess.
In one gripping profile after another, these extraordinary historical accounts offer stories of steadfast believers who together helped thousands of Jewish individuals and families to safety. Many of these everyday heroes perished alongside the very people they were trying to protect. There is no doubt that all of their stories showcase the best of humanity--even in the face of unthinkable evil.