After spending more than a decade in finance, Mike changed course entirely in his professional career and became a freelance journalist.Since 2009, he's been published both locally in Chicago in newspapers and magazines like New City, Times of Northwest Indiana, Inside Booster, Welles Park Bulldog, Chicago Reader, and Chicago Heights Patch.He's also expanded into national stories. On the national level, his work has been published in such places as the Daily Caller, WND, Counter Punch, Crime Magazine, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Newsletter, Front Page Magazine, and Big Government.In 2009, Mike's expose of Dr. Anna Chacko led in part to her termination from the Pittsburgh VA. His expose of Dr. Chacko also received coverage in the Pittsburgh Tribune as well as the radiology website, Aunt Minnie.In October 2012, Mike published his first book entitled "Prosecutors Gone Wild: The Inside Story of the Trial of Chuck Panici, John Gliottoni, and Louise Marshall."In 1993, once powerful City of Chicago Heights mayor, Chuck Panici, was convicted, along with co-defendants John Gliottoni and Louise Marshall, of a number of corruption related charges, including RICO charges.This book revisits that trial and exposes the corruption perpetrated on the court. The book proves that all three defendants were innocent and victims of a grand conspiracy perpetrated by ambitious prosecutors and desperate criminals. His second book The Definitive Dossier of PTSD in Whistleblowers was published in February 2013 and his third book Bullied to Death was published in August 2015.https://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2020/09/judge-uses-arbitrary-and-capricious.htmlhttps://www.twitter.com/mikevolpehttps://www.twitter.com/ontheroadwithJ3https://www.instagram.com/ontheroadwithjimandcaseySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/deluxeditionpod)