I was friends with Allison Guerriero. I worked with Allison every day. She was a researcher for StoneZONE.com, and I communicated with her both the day before her death and again on the day she suddenly and suspiciously died. She was engaged in her work. She was upbeat. She was focused. She was not, in my firsthand judgment, behaving like somebody preparing to take her own life. Allison took enormous personal risks as an FBI whistleblower.
She took these risks not because she was unstable but rather because she loved her country and desired to expose corruption. Her information helped expose disgraced former FBI counterintelligence official Charles McGonigal, who later pleaded guilty in separate federal cases involving concealed foreign payments and work connected to sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Allison was still pursuing corruption inside the FBI.
She was still naming names. She was still working. And she had told me that she was receiving multiple threats because of that whistleblower activity. She was also deeply religious, a devout Roman Catholic, and that was not a minor detail in her life. It shaped who she was and how she viewed the world.
So I am not prepared to accept any premature narrative about how Allison died. I will resist any rush to conclude that she took her own life, and I will do everything I can to make sure the evidence is independently examined and any potential cover-up is thwarted. Allison’s father has said the family was still waiting on the medical examiner.
Boynton Beach police said that the cause of death had not been publicly established. We must consider the threats, look at the communications, carefully examine the timeline and peer through the medical evidence. We must talk to the people who actually spoke with her in her final hours. I was one of them. Allison Guerriero deserved to be heard when she was alive, and she deserves the truth now. We must fight for justice for Allison Guerriero. It is what she deserves.
