FBI Director Christopher Wray has named Joseph R. Bonavolonta as special agent in charge of the Boston Field Office. Mr. Bonavolonta has served as deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division since March 2018. He previously helped lead the Boston Field Office as assistant special agent in charge from 2013 to 2017 and is honored to be returning to the office.

Mr. Bonavolonta has held a variety of leadership, operational, and investigative positions throughout his FBI career. He entered on duty in May 1996 as an investigative specialist in the FBI’s New York Field Office. In August 2000, he received his first assignment as a special agent in the New York Field Office, where he spent many years investigating the Bonanno La Cosa Nostra (LCN) Family within the office’s organized crime branch.