Operation Greylord : the true story of an untrained undercover agent and America's biggest corruption bust

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Terrence Hake recounts his involvement in the events of Operation Greylord, the FBI's longest and most successful undercover operation that led to charges against over one hundred of Chicago's judges, lawyers, and court personnel. In the 1980s Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, worked undercover for nearly four years. He accepted bribes, made payoffs, wore a wire in bars and to racetracks, bugged a judge's chambers, and befriended people he knew he would betray. Operation Greylord resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments. This is the story from a perspective that only a true insider can bring. Read more... Abstract: Terrence was a young assistant prosecutor in Chicago when asked to helm the investigation. This book tells the story of Terrence Hake, the leader of the FBI's longest and most successful undercover operation - Operation Greylord, which resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers and other court personnel. Read more...