The Anthony Cumia Show - August 25, 2025


Arthur Pfizenmayer ｜ 08-24-25

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Former FBI Agent Arthur Feisenmeyer joins the show to talk about gambling and organized crime in general. He talks about his time in law enforcement, his early days working for the Chicago Field Office, and his time with the San Diego Field Office.

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00:01:00.040 It's the Anthony Cumia
00:01:01.760 Show. Entertaining and informative.
00:01:04.400 On the Red Apple Podcast
00:01:05.880 Network. Yes,
00:01:07.880 the Anthony Cumia Show. Thank you for tuning
00:01:09.760 in. And we have
00:01:11.760 a guest. We have a guest, Mr.
00:01:13.960 Arthur
00:01:14.500 Feisenmeyer. What a name.
00:01:18.280 Arthur Feisenmeyer.
00:01:19.740 He is a former FBI
00:01:21.860 agent and
00:01:23.720 a senior advisor right now to home title lock um good evening uh mr feisenmeyer how are you tonight
00:01:30.680 i'm doing great thank you the last name really is fitzenmeyer a little fitzenmeyer oh that see
00:01:37.940 it's easier than it looks it is that is a tough one uh you must have had to oh god imagine even
00:01:45.420 as a young man having to spell that for people could you spell it you're just like oh god here
00:01:50.840 You know, I could spell it before it was two, probably, because every time any adult said it around me, they had to spell it to whoever they were talking to.
00:01:58.560 And my children, the same way, they could spell it before they got to school, simply because we were always spelling it all the time.
00:02:06.700 And having that on your FBI credentials, look out, it's Agent Feisenmeyer.
00:02:13.340 Yeah.
00:02:14.340 Well, my credentials were bigger.
00:02:16.560 My name was so long, you know.
00:02:18.040 Yeah, yeah. Big, long book of creds. As far as the FBI goes, what was – were you organized crime early on?
00:02:28.880 I worked organized crime labor racketeering most of my bureau career, specializing in electronic surveillance, wiretaps.
00:02:37.320 Where – out of – what city primarily or anywhere?
00:02:41.240 Uh, primarily, uh, about 11 or 12 years in Chicago and the remainder of my 26 years here
00:02:49.020 in San Diego.
00:02:49.900 Oh, now Chicago, I would think a lot of, uh, organized crime there.
00:02:55.060 Uh, but San Diego, yeah, a lot of, a lot of, when I got out here, they asked, they asked
00:03:00.400 me to come out here because, uh, tribal gaming was just starting to raise its, uh, profile
00:03:07.220 and they knew that, you know, those guys whose last names they don't need to buy a bottle for
00:03:14.960 were very interested, and by the time I got out here, they were, you know, nibbling around the
00:03:23.560 edges, and so we had a lot of success out here, essentially stopping them at the state line,
00:03:29.580 so to speak, because, you know, the system was so skewed to make it easy
00:03:38.220 that, you know, it was easier for us to get the probable cause
00:03:42.720 to execute a wiretap.
00:03:44.420 And so we had a lot of significant organized crime figures
00:03:48.300 that we arrested and brought to trial out here in San Diego.
00:03:52.300 Yeah. 1.00
00:03:53.580 Tinkering around with the tribal gaming. 1.00
00:03:57.100 I would, yeah. I'm not surprised in that gambling brings organized crime in. That seems to be kind of hand in hand. And you're working with Home Title Lock now. And this is, I had a meeting with your associates and I just didn't know this was happening.
00:04:21.080 I had no idea because, look, it's 2025.
00:04:25.420 A lot of our lives are digitized.
00:04:27.440 We're up online.
00:04:28.660 I laugh when people go, oh, I'm not going to do that online.
00:04:31.460 I don't want to put my information out there.
00:04:33.300 It's out there.
00:04:34.540 It's all out there.
00:04:36.920 Everything's presented to people as a convenience at first.
00:04:39.580 And then you realize that it can also be very detrimental.
00:04:43.840 And you're not an expert.
00:04:46.160 I mean, you are.
00:04:46.800 But the average layman, they're not experts in digital crime.
00:04:51.080 And so it's very difficult for them to protect themselves against things like credit card theft and pretty much everything could be stolen from you these days.
00:04:59.260 But I didn't know this. 0.59
00:05:01.300 Your house can literally be stolen from you, not like a squatter where they pull up with a tractor trailer and tow your house away.
00:05:12.020 You can own it, have it, and then all of a sudden you don't own it anymore.
00:05:16.340 You know, Anthony, a lot of people sit around completely unaware of the vulnerability.
00:05:24.220 The one document out there for every homeowner that identifies the owner of record, the person who has the authority to do something with that property, that is a document that is actually on file in your county recorder's office, wherever the property is located.
00:05:42.100 And with that, it becomes a public document.
00:05:46.680 Anybody can get a copy of it.
00:05:47.900 And lots of times, you know, like you said earlier, we're living in the digital age.
00:05:51.740 They can probably get a copy of your title or your deed without ever leaving their grandmother's basement, quite frankly.
00:05:58.320 It's that simple to get it.
00:05:59.880 And then with AI and with Photoshopping and all those things that are, you know, apps that are out there now, they can change the name of that document.
00:06:09.500 It looks like you sold it to them.
00:06:12.100 They can file it for 30 or 40 bucks or whatever it takes to their local recorder's office.
00:06:17.020 And they essentially have changed the ownership on that piece of property with that piece of paper from your name to their name.
00:06:24.560 They don't just sit around and admire your house.
00:06:27.020 They figure out how much equity you have and they start taking out real estate loans.
00:06:32.300 Right. Using using the equity that you have as collateral for those loans.
00:06:38.440 Yeah. And you don't know about it.
00:06:39.720 Because, you know, when you talk about stealing your house or house stealing, you would assume if you play it out in your head, it's like, well, what are they going to do?
00:06:48.520 Move in?
00:06:50.160 Kick me out?
00:06:51.460 But you won't even know that this had happened until equity is drained out of your house.
00:06:57.840 It's just another way to steal from you.
00:07:00.840 And there's really not much recourse that people have if this happened, right?
00:07:07.080 Well, you know, no, there isn't.
00:07:09.060 And once they get the money, the money's gone.
00:07:12.400 I mean, before the ink is dry, it's in three different countries.
00:07:15.280 And they probably did it with a false identity.
00:07:17.980 So you're not going to have any idea what the hell's going on, quite frankly.
00:07:22.520 You'll be, you know, kind of high and dry on the whole deal because it's all happened without your knowledge.
00:07:30.400 And until the lender shows up at your front door and says to you, you haven't paid on this mortgage.
00:07:38.460 And so I'm going to go to court and get a judge to authorize me to sell your house so I can get my money back.
00:07:45.000 They don't want your house.
00:07:46.320 They want the money back that they loan to the bad guys because it's gone.
00:07:50.280 Well, you don't know where it is.
00:07:51.380 Yeah, they've moved on to somebody else. 0.86
00:07:54.960 They took the equity out of your house, and now you're screwed.
00:07:58.300 The mortgage company knows where the money is.
00:08:00.060 It's in your house.
00:08:01.300 Yeah.
00:08:01.600 And they're going to get a court to authorize them to sell it. 0.92
00:08:05.800 It's called foreclosure.
00:08:07.160 and it's an ugly set of circumstances you don't want to get into if you don't have to
00:08:12.540 you know and i have what i call our agent arts pop quiz for homeowners and it's three questions one
00:08:20.700 um do you know what your title looks like two when was the last time you saw your title and
00:08:28.600 three do you know where your title is right now you know and they're going to look at you with
00:08:32.600 You know, the glassy-eyed, you stare and say, I don't know.
00:08:36.380 Maybe when I bought the house 12 years ago, I saw the title.
00:08:39.160 And that's really the situation.
00:08:41.320 They're completely lack of knowledge about their most important asset.
00:08:46.140 That's their house, the equity of their home.
00:08:48.360 Right.
00:08:48.620 And guess what?
00:08:50.080 The bad guys know what those answers are.
00:08:53.000 And they can go out and get that information so easily and change the name
00:09:00.240 and essentially take ownership of your house now you know they you want to you want to think well
00:09:06.380 uh i'm not going to worry about it's not going to happen to me well i've got some some bad news for
00:09:12.300 you if it does it's a legal financial and emotional nightmare that'll take you years to straighten oh
00:09:19.040 yeah even if it does get straightened out at some point it's taken years and cost you a lot of money
00:09:25.900 to try to remedy this, and your credit's probably destroyed.
00:09:30.980 I've been with the company almost nine years now.
00:09:33.520 Right after I joined, I got a call from a gentleman on the West Coast, actually,
00:09:38.480 and he said, look, I don't know if you can help me or not,
00:09:40.960 but somebody stole all the equity out of my house,
00:09:43.320 and I don't know how to get it back.
00:09:44.320 And I said, well, I can't do much for you, quite frankly,
00:09:47.300 because the house, you know, the cow's out of the barn,
00:09:49.920 but you should get an attorney right away
00:09:52.520 because you're going to have to take this to court
00:09:54.360 to prove that you didn't execute that loan yeah he called me back he was nice enough to call me
00:09:59.720 back a couple years later you know he said i just wanted to let you know that the court awarded the
00:10:04.660 house to us we got our house back in our name he said that's the good news the bad news didn't cost
00:10:10.960 me so much in legal fees i had to sell the house to pay the attorney yeah a lot of people crazy
00:10:16.640 it's like i said man a lot of people don't know that this is a thing and uh you know what what
00:10:23.600 can people do there arthur uh let everyone know what uh home title lock is about and how how it
00:10:29.540 differs from what they can do coming to your door yeah what they can do so they don't have to worry
00:10:34.280 about the answer to those three questions and an agent arts pop quiz is sign up and subscribe to
00:10:42.720 home title lock.com this company has been in business for since uh probably 2014 2050 i mean
00:10:50.960 we know what we do or we do it better than anybody else our software we built it doesn't do anything
00:10:56.780 but watch your title for you 24 7 and if something disturbs your title our software notifies you
00:11:04.380 that there's been a disturbance on your title and if it's available they'll send you a copy
00:11:09.420 of the document that caused that disturbance and then it'll tell you to call home title lock
00:11:16.180 right away and if you don't recognize it then our restoration we have we have the best customer
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00:11:29.820 quite frankly because i did the backgrounds on every one of them and these are great people
00:11:34.620 and they know what to do to get you through this before somebody knocks on your door and says we're
00:11:40.640 going to sell your house the idea really is don't sit around at night thinking well it won't happen
00:11:46.820 to me what you can do is feel comfortable at night and not worry about it because home title lock
00:11:53.000 will take care of it for you 24 7 yeah there's just too much going on these days especially
00:11:59.400 digitally to uh pay attention to everything that can possibly happen to you by yourself so uh all
00:12:06.160 Right. How can people get this Home Title Lock?
00:12:09.660 Rather than play roulette with their home equity, they should go to HomeTitleLock.com and sign up, register.
00:12:17.780 It's very simple. And you go to the website and it'll walk you through it.
00:12:22.420 And before you go to bed tonight, you'll not have to worry about somebody stealing your house while you're asleep.
00:12:28.320 And every day thereafter, we will watch it for you.
00:12:31.920 You know, it's it's like 62 cents a day.
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00:12:47.120 and probably have enough left over for a tank or two of gasoline,
00:12:51.540 except on the West Coast, we would get a half a tank out here.
00:12:54.780 But it's that important, and it's that simple.
00:12:58.500 You just go sign up and rest easy.
00:13:00.920 We're going to take care of you.
00:13:02.100 Yeah, it sounds great.
00:13:03.600 And great talking to you, sir.
00:13:06.100 And, you know, for a Fed, you seem like a pretty nice guy.
00:13:10.980 But thank you.
00:13:11.660 Watch yourself.
00:13:12.140 I know where you live.
00:13:13.500 I bet you do.
00:13:14.640 All right, Arthur.
00:13:15.420 Thank you, man.
00:13:17.000 It was my pleasure.
00:13:17.820 Take care, buddy.
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