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Operation Greylord : the true story of an untrained undercover agent and America's biggest corruption bust / Terrence Hake with Wayne Klatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hake, Terrence, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Judicial corruption--Illinois--Cook County.
- Judicial corruption.
- Corruption investigation--Illinois--Cook Count.
- Corruption investigation.
- Undercover operations--Illinois--Cook County.
- Undercover operations.
- Hake, Terrence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (465 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- 2015.
- Chicago, Illinois : ABA Defending Libertry Pursuing Justice, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 betra
- Contents:
- COVER; TITLE PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; CAST OF CHARACTERS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: ENTRY LEVEL; 1. A GAME WITHOUT RULES; 2. THE CLOSED WORLD; 3. WEARING A WIRE; 4. THE FIXERS; 5. MONEY TRAILS; 6. THE BRASS KEY; 7. DISCLOSURES; PART 2: ONE OF THE BOYS; 8. THE NEXT LEVEL; 9. THE BLACK BAG; 10. LISTENING IN; 11. SUSPICIONS; 12. SWITCHING SIDES; 13. WEB OF CORRUPTION; 14. BRANCHING OUT; 15. OUR CRIME ACADEMY; 16. ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE; PART 3: THE RECKONING; 17. THE LARGEST BRIBE; 18. THE WALL COLLAPSES; 19. JUSTICE ON TRIAL; 20. ON THE STAND; 21. REBOUND; 22. FINAL JUSTICE; 23. FULL CIRCLE
- EPILOGUEPHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT; COPYRIGHT
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed July 8, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 1-62722-920-5
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