In Search of the Sleuth

Scott Gilbert

Scott Gilbert

The story of how Pankau raced into a burning building in Panama once occupied by Manuel Noriega made for great theater.

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• Edmund Pankau
• Ed Pankau
• Robert Pack
• Ralph Thomas
• U.S. Army Special Operations Command

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I wasn't exactly surprised when Dunleavy said he knew nothing of Pankau's investigations for the government. But he knew the private eye, all right. He'd hired him to teach at the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. Turns out Pankau spent years teaching bank examiners from the FDIC, the Federal Reserve and other government institutions how to do their jobs.

"He's a very entertaining person. He was a very successful speaker at our agency for years," Dunleavy says. "Either he knew how to do [investigations] or he was a great talker."