Operation Greylord
The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust
Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 279 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments. And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, who worked undercover for nearly four years, accepting bribes, making payoffs, wearing a wire in bars and to racetracks, bugging a judge's chambers, and befriending people he knew he would betray. Operation Greylord has never before been detailed by an insider in the investigation.
Contents:
pt. 1. Entry level. A game without rules -- The closed world -- Wearing a wire -- The fixers -- Money trails -- The brass key -- Disclosures. pt. 2. One of the boys. The next level -- The black bag -- Listening in -- Suspicions -- Switching sides -- Web of corruption -- Branching out -- Our crime academy -- All hell breaks loose. pt. 3. The reckoning. The largest bribe -- The wall collapses -- Justice on trial -- On the stand -- Rebound -- Final justice -- Full circle.
Subjects:
Hake, Terrence.
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Judicial corruption -- Illinois -- Cook County.
Corruption investigation -- Illinois -- Cook County.
Undercover operations -- Illinois -- Cook County.
Hake, Terrence.
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Judicial corruption -- Illinois -- Cook County.
Corruption investigation -- Illinois -- Cook County.
Undercover operations -- Illinois -- Cook County.
ISBN:
9781627229197 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Hake, Terrence | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |