Valerie Smaldone a 5 time Billboard Magazine Award winner, is perhaps best known for her unprecedented success holding the #1 position in the New York radio market as the midday host of New York’s 106.7 FM. She ended her on air run with the station at the end of 2007. In addition, she was the co-creator, writer, producer and host of 'Spotlight On,' a nationally syndicated program that featured in-depth interviews with top recording artists such as Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting and Celine Dion, to name a few.
Presently, Valerie can be heard on NBC Network News promos and specialty shows and as the announcer for The Boomer Esiason Show on MSG. She writes a weekly nightlife column for TheThreeTomatoes.com, writes a theater column for Examiner.com, and has an interview program on the Italian American Network. She is an interviewer and feature reporter on Broadway for TonyAwards.com and hosts and produces celebrity portrait unveilings for Broadway stars at famed theater district eatery, Tony’s.

A successful voice-over artist with more than 1,000 commercials, television news promos and movie trailers to her credit, Valerie has also been the “Voice of God” for numerous prestigious live events including: The New York Emmy Awards, The Tony Preview Concert on CBS, Broadway on Broadway in Times Square, Broadway Under the Stars in Central Park, The GLAAD Media Awards, The Point Foundation, and many more.

As an actor, Valerie has appeared on stage in the play she co-wrote, entitled “Spit it Out!” Spring of 2007, she performed in the acclaimed Off-Broadway play, 'Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell' and was an onstage celebrity guest in the Broadway hit, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

Valerie has won numerous awards during her two decades on the air including the Golden Apple Award for Broadcast Excellence presented by the American Women in Radio and Television 2006 and Radio and Records’ Adult Contemporary Personality of the Year 2001 – 2006. In 2005, the Italian Welfare League named her 'Woman of the Year,' and in 2006, she was invited to be the Grand Marshal of the Bronx Columbus Day Parade. She has twice been honored by the Sass Foundation for Medical Research and received an award from the World Foundation for Medical Studies in Female Health along with Jenny Craig. Valerie was also tapped to ring the opening bell at the NYSE to highlight awareness about ovarian cancer.

As president of Two Sides of A Coin, a live event production company, Valerie has produced dozens of live shows including: Cyndi Lauper’s Broadway Welcome Party, An Intimate Evening with Phoebe Snow, 'One Wicked Night with Stephen Schwartz' and numerous live, on stage interviews with compelling celebrities and personalities like author Mary Higgins Clark, foodie Gael Greene and Broadway star James Barbour. Valerie is currently developing several projects for advanced media, teaches a course on Internet radio, coaches talent, and is writing a book.


Joaquin "Jack" Garcia is considered by his peers and leading FBI experts to be the most successful Undercover Agent in the history of the FBI.

In his 26 years of service with the FBI and as an undercover FBI Agent in over 100 Undercover operations, Jack Garcia is best known for his undercover role as "Jack Falcone," a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida, who penetrated the Gambino crime family of La Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years. The case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 35 mobsters, including the top members of the Post John Gotti Gambino crime family. Agent Garcia, played his undercover role so convincingly that he was even proposed for membership into La Cosa Nostra.

Jack Garcia's history as an undercover Agent is far more extensive than that. He is also renowned for his roles in successful cases against corrupt politicians in Atlantic City, New Jersey; corrupt police officers in the Hollywood Police Department, the Broward County Sheriff's Office; Boston Police Department and in the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. He has also worked undercover against hundreds of drug dealers and leaders of both Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, while posing as either a money launderer, transporter or trafficker. He has done undercover work on National and International terrorism cases as well as National Security investigations. Garcia has also worked undercover against Russian and Asian organized crime groups. Most remarkably, Garcia worked on many of these cases simultaneously, as he juggled his various undercover identities and roles. Garcia successfully managed to work as an undercover FBI Agent for 24 out of his 26 years of service without detection.

In addition, Jack Garcia is a fluent Spanish speaker and member of the FBI Agents Association, the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the NYPD Honor Legion, and the Society of FBI Alumni. Jack Garcia is a guest speaker and lecturer at the FBI Academy, the FBI National Academy, and the FBI Citizens Academy on Sensitive Operations and Undercover Agent Training. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, the Investigative Discovery Channel, CBS Evening News, CBS Early Show, The "Don Francisco Presenta" Show, CBS-4 Miami, 60 Minutes-Australia and on Fox's Good Day New York. He has also been featured in numerous radio shows, magazines and newspaper articles and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Making Jack Falcone". His story was recently optioned by Paramount Studios for a feature film with Academy award Director, Steven Soderbergh.

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