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FBI agents on site and police instructed witnesses to delete any video and photographs of the event and cleared out the bar

Cincinelli was a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI's Complex Financial Crimes Unit. He managed the FBI's financial crimes program for the Northeast region, and was a detailee from the FBI to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Before working at FBI Headquarters, SSA Cincinelli led financial crime investigations in the FBI's flagship New York Field Office. SSA Cincinelli conducted investigations involving market manipulation, corporate & accounting fraud, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, insider trading, and antitrust violations, among others. SSA Cincinelli worked as a fixed-income trader prior to joining the FBI, and held an MBA in Quantitative Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business.

Cincinelli walked away from a career as a credit trader with an MBA in quantitative finance to join the FBI. He said that for an investigation he's working on, he recently interviewed a person on Wall Street who specializes in collateralized debt obligations, bonds that are created from collections of corporate debt and sold to investors in slices.



He said the conversation lasted an hour and at the end of it the other agent who had accompanied him turned to Cincinelli and said, "I don't even know how I would ask those questions."



But making the switch from Wall Street, where seven-figure salaries are common, to much lower-paying government work isn't always easy.



"Some of my friends said, 'Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind?'" said Cincinelli, whose profile on LinkedIn shows he has held positions at Bank of America and Global FX.



Cincinelli declined to discuss his prior work and said his wife initially was furious with his decision to join the FBI. She was worried for her husband's safety and unhappy about the lengthy FBI training programs.

FBI agents are mourningaccording to top FBI insiders.Salvatore "Sal" Cincinelli, a former Wall Street broker who joined the FBI in 2010, died last week, sources said.Cincinelli was once a supervisory special agent whoAfter leaving his Wall Street career, Cincinelli was first assigned to the New York field office (SDNY) and later promoted to HQ in Washington, DC. He was a native New Yorker as well."Very very bright guy," one FBI insider said. "Such a young guy, it really gets you in the gut. He put in the hours too, was always working hard."Cincinelli was 41.Cincinelli was reportedly out partying with FBI colleagues at the Container Bar, a trendy watering hole in Austin, TX. The group had been drinking and dancing, according to sources. Later in the eveningBar owner Bridget Dunlap did not respond to phone calls seeking details on the incident., according to reports. Likewise,sources confirmed., sources said.According to his resume:This story is developing.A previous news story in the Wall Street Journal highlighted Cincinelli soon after he joined the FBI: