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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.1092 EAN: 9780786715831 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0786715839 Label: Carroll & Graf Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: January 02, 2006 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Studio: Carroll & Graf Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: During the 1970s and '80s, attorney Bob Cooley bribed judges, juries, and coppers for his Chicago Mob clients. Yet, without a pending conviction, he became the star witness in nine federal trials in the '90s that disabled the Chicago Outfit, the most powerful Mafia family in history. Mob lawyer turned mole with a million-dollar contract on his head, Cooley has clanged back and forth between sin and sainthood like a church bell's clapper—a turbulent youth, a stint on Chicago's police force, law school, and then the inner sanctum of Chicago's wiseguys. He chased acquittals for Pat Marcy, former henchman of Al Capone who became Illinois Democratic Party leader and the Mob's key political operative; ruthless Mafia Capo Marco D'Amico; and hit man Harry Aleman. He dined with Mob bosses and shared "last suppers" with friends before their executions. He helped brew a perfect storm of corruption, where the Mob controlled the law and could fend off the Feds. In a startling act of conscience, Cooley walked into the office of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force and agreed to wear a wire on the very same Mafia overlords who had made him a player. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - when corruption was kinggreat book, fast read, incredible content, very well written. this mafia lawyer snitch turned corruption fighting superhero is a must read. he presents all his own crimes, scummy dealings and ripoffs with an air of nobility, so take it with a grain of salt. the lawyer can't admit when he's wrong. the good thing is he can admit when the mafia is wrong, and goes about setting them up and recording them in the most outrageous fashion, netting mass convictions and (hopefully) forever altering the ... Read More Rating:  - A BlastHaving lived in Chicago for years I relished this book. Reading it was like sitting in a dive bar and listening to the outrageous, hilarious, and probably sociopathic Sout' Side guy next to you tell tales of Windy City corruption so depraved you know they've got to be true. Rating: - An Ugly Business: Naming NamesRobert Cooley was a former cop who studied law and became one of the top hustlers in the Criminal Courts Building. After years of fixing cases for the mob dominated First Ward Democratic Organization, Cooley turned informant and helped the United States Attorney for the Northeastern District of Illinois indict and convict a variety of political hoodlums. The negative publicity from the resulting scandal was so great that when the City Council proposed a redistricting map the ... Read More Rating:  - Poor account of Chicago's badThis is a poorly wriiten account of one turncoat in the world of Chicago crime. Nothing new here and for the most part it is a boring story that I could not finish. Rating: - What's Next?This is a great story of the past.We would like to know what the current situation is in Chicago? Who's in charge? Who is the new Pat Marcy? Will There be a Sequel? 
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