MILT AHLERICH - FBI Assistant Director & Spokesperson
Milt Ahlerich had a 25 year career with the FBI, he held several of the Bureau’s senior executive positions including Chief of the Bureau’s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, Chief Spokesman of the FBI and Director of the FBI’s Forensic Laboratory.
Ahlerich graduated from Kansas State University in 1968 with a degree in psychology and took advanced studies in criminal justice at Long Island’s C.W. Post University. Mr. Ahlerich was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.
He is a member of the International Association of Assembly Managers, Society of Former Agents of the FBI and U.S. State Department’s Overseas Advisory Council.
Ahlerich has been Vice President of Security for the National Football League since 1996. He is responsible for all League-wide security programs, including stadium security; special event security, to include Super Bowl; all investigative matters, including fraud, pre-employment, player misconduct and due diligence. He oversees a staff of 11 security professionals and 70 security consultants with an annual budget of more than $12 million.
THE 1986 TYLENOL MURDER
“The bottles were tampered with locally, at the retail store” aspect of the approved theory - the most important component of the cover-up - was exposed as a fraud after the 1986 Tylenol murder, and then very sloppily covered up by FBI Director, Milt Ahlerich.
The cornerstone of the approved theory of the Tylenol murders deception ran into trouble, thanks to the revelations of Carl Vergari, when on February 18, 1986 he reiterated during a press conference the findings provided to him by FBI scientists. Vergari said Federal investigators had found no evidence that the triple seals on the bottles of tainted Tylenol had been broken after they left the factory, suggesting that they might have been tampered with there (at the factory).
The two bottles that contained contaminated capsules were sent to the FBI labs to determine “to a reasonable degree of certainty” through microscopic examination “whether the metal foil that’s heat-welded to the top of the bottle has been tampered with after it left the factory.”
“And they say in both cases that their laboratory examination reveals that it was not,” he said, ”that these bottles were not tampered with after they left the factory; that, ergo, the contamination was done at some time during the manufacturing process before the seal was placed on it.”
“What could be clearer than that?” Vergari said.
FBI spokesman, Jack French, declined to confirm or deny Vergari’s assertion, but the fact remained; the FBI’s own evidence didn’t fit the approved theory. If the packaging on the Tylenol bottles hadn’t been tampered with, then the Tylenol capsules had to have been laced with cyanide before the bottles were packaged and before they were placed on the local retail store shelves. (What Vergari didn't know, was that the the Tylenol wasn't packaged at the factory; it was packaged at repackaging facilities.)
Still, the FBI refused to deviate from their story. Milt Ahlerich, chief of public affairs for the FBI, said the lack of evidence “does not mean that the tampering did not occur."