Question: Who supervised the FBI operation that the movie American Hustle was inspired by?
Context: Ali Ejaz is a Pakistani actor known for his roles in "FBI Operation Pakistan" (1971), "Sona Chandi" (1983), and "Chor Machaye Shor" (1996). Katt Williams: American Hustle, also known as American Hustle: The Movie, is a 2007 comedy film directed by Brit McAdams, and written by Brit McAdams and Katt Williams.  The film was R-rated for its sexual content, drug use, and profanity. Mayssa Karaa (born 1989 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese American Grammy nominated singer currently based in Los Angeles, California.  Karaa first moved to Boston in 2007 and graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in 2012.  While in Boston, she toured with Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito, and later collaborated and toured with Arabic musician Simon Shaheen.  She has also toured with the Berklee World Strings Orchestra.  In 2013 she was the featured vocalist on the Arabic version of "White Rabbit" on the "American Hustle Soundtrack" which was nominated to the Grammy Awards as Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media in 2015.  Karaa was awarded the National Cultural Award of Lebanon for the song at the "American Hustle" premier in Beirut, and as of 2014 she moved to Los Angeles and is writing her debut solo album. The Portland Seven was a group of American Muslims from the Portland, Oregon area arrested in October 2002 as part of an FBI operation attempting to close down a terrorist cell.  The seven were attempting to join Al Qaeda forces in their fight against the United States military and coalition forces in Afghanistan, or aiding in that attempt. Operation Auxin was an Australian police operation in September 2004, leading to the arrest of almost 200 people on charges of child pornography.  These people were all accused of purchasing child pornography over the Internet, using their credit cards, from Belarusian crime syndicates, the credit card payments having been processed by a company named Landslide.com in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Among the accused were people holding positions of trust in the community, such as police officers (including one officer assigned to investigate child pornography), members of the military, teachers and ministers of religion.  Several of the suspects committed suicide.  It was the follow-up to the U.S. FBI operation Operation Falcon. John Francis Good (June 17, 1936 – September 28, 2016) was an American agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who created the Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  Abscam led to the arrest and conviction of several elected officials at the local, state, and federal level, including Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Angelo Errichetti and U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams, using a fictional Arab sheikh seeking political favors as bait.  The Abscam story was portrayed in the 2013 film "American Hustle"; in the movie, Bradley Cooper portrayed a composite character that was based on Good and two other FBI agents who worked on the case during the two-year-long operation. The Tiger Gang is a 1971 Kommissar X Eurospy movie directed by Harald Reinl that was a German/Italian/Pakistani international co-production, also known by its German title, Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger and FBI Operation Pakistan. American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy-crime film directed by David O. Russell.  It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s.  It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists who are forced by an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey (Jeremy Renner).  Jennifer Lawrence plays the unpredictable wife of Bale's character.  Principal photography on the film began on March 8, 2013, in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City. "American Hustle" is a 2013 American crime comedy-drama film directed by David O. Russell.  The screenplay, written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, is based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s.  It was filmed in Boston, Worcester, and New York City.  It stars an ensemble cast of Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence. Abscam—sometimes written ABSCAM—was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  The two-year investigation was directed from the FBI's office in Hauppauge, New York, and was under the supervision of Assistant Director Neil J. Welch, who headed the bureau's New York division, and Thomas P. Puccio, head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York.  The operation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property and corruption of prestigious businessmen, but was later converted to a public corruption investigation.  The FBI, aided by the Justice Department and a convicted con-man, videotaped politicians accepting bribes from a fraudulent Arabian company in return for various political favors.
Answer: Neil J. Welch