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Speaker 1: Previously on deep Cover. I had a couple of lawyers,
Speaker 1: but I would always say Bob Coole he was the best.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was good at pukskin cases, and they
Speaker 1: knew how good he was, and he was the fixture
Speaker 1: he was to be with the guy. By the early
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, Cooley had established himself as mister Fixett, a
Speaker 1: guy the mob called if one of their own was
Speaker 1: in trouble, and Bob was also learning that working for
Speaker 1: the mob came with rules, but sometimes Bob broke them.
Speaker 1: I said, if anybody thinks for one second, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: even take up beating. I said, you know they're thinking wrong,
Speaker 1: I said, And if I think I got a problem
Speaker 1: with you, who I said, You're going to have the
Speaker 1: fucking problem. And eventually they would have a problem with Bob,
Speaker 1: a very big one, but for the time being, Bob
Speaker 1: was still their guy. In the nineteen eighties, Chicago was
Speaker 1: corruption city, USA. Corruption was so insidious that over time
Speaker 1: some people stopped thinking about bribery itself as even being wrong.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a stop sign that fades
Speaker 1: and rusts and gradually gets ignored until no one even
Speaker 1: thinks about slowing down at the intersection anymore. No one,
Speaker 1: that is, except for this guy. I believed in God,
Speaker 1: motherhood in the flag and thought crime and corruption could
Speaker 1: be dealt with. This is mort Friedman. He's in his
Speaker 1: eighties now and long retired, but back in his heyday,
Speaker 1: he was a prosecutor at the Cook County States Attorney's Office.
Speaker 1: I doubt if anyone ever entered that office more naive
Speaker 1: than I was. I thought I could do good. I
Speaker 1: thought I could help clean up crime. I thought I
Speaker 1: could make the streets safe for women and little children.
Speaker 1: And I went in there just a babe in the woods,
Speaker 1: absolute babe in the woods. His job was basically prosecuting
Speaker 1: criminals for a range of misdeeds, anything from theft to murder.
Speaker 1: Morton never tried a case against Bob, but he easily
Speaker 1: could have. They were cogs in the same machine grinding away.
Speaker 1: Mort says he remembers his early days as a prosecutor
Speaker 1: very fondly. Oh, it was wonderful. I had a courtroom
Speaker 1: with a judge who was soft spoken, polite. I was
Speaker 1: doing exceptionally while as a trial lawyer. And yet it
Speaker 1: wasn't all perfect. There was this one defense lawyer that
Speaker 1: Mort kept on going up against. I knew I was
Speaker 1: going to lose. It didn't matter how well I prepared
Speaker 1: the witnesses, how well I argued emotion I knew I
Speaker 1: was going to lose. Mort began to suspect the judge
Speaker 1: was being paid off. After all, this was Chicago, and
Speaker 1: this particular defense lawyer allegedly had mob ties. Even so,
Speaker 1: More kept trying his best to win. And then one
Speaker 1: day after work he had this epiphany. I was alone
Speaker 1: in the courtroom. It was a way past quitting time.
Speaker 1: I was preparing for the next day, and it suddenly
Speaker 1: dawned on me and I stood there thinking, I'm a pimp.
Speaker 1: The better I prepare, the harder I try. All I
Speaker 1: can do is drive up the price of the bribe
Speaker 1: to the judge. And it was a heartbreaking and devastating thought.
Speaker 1: A realization it was just heartbreaking. Mort couldn't stomach it
Speaker 1: any longer, and apparently his frustration showed, because shortly after this,
Speaker 1: the judge leaned over the dais and looked at me
Speaker 1: and said, Mart, you've been acting surly lately. I don't
Speaker 1: think I care for your attitude. And I said to him, well, Judged,
Speaker 1: I don't care for the way you jump all over me.
Speaker 1: When this lawyer walks into the courtroom, I named him.
Speaker 1: The judge, quiet and soft spoken as ever, said Mort,
Speaker 1: I think you ought to get another courtroom. I said, Judge,
Speaker 1: I think you're right, and put my files down and
Speaker 1: walked out. Corruption City, USA be damned. Mort was going
Speaker 1: to try to change the system, So get ready. In
Speaker 1: this episode, I'm going to tell you the story of
Speaker 1: the crusaders who tried to end corruption in Chicago years
Speaker 1: before Bob ever tried. It was a massive undertaking. The
Speaker 1: FBI eventually got involved, marshaling hundreds of agents. They were
Speaker 1: going to war, and in a way, this all set
Speaker 1: the stage for Bob to make the most important decision
Speaker 1: of his life to switch sides. I'm Jake Halbern and
Speaker 1: is deep Cover mob Land. Episode five, The Babe in
Speaker 1: the woods. In the Hollywood version of this story, when
Speaker 1: Mort Friedman squared off with that judge in the courtroom,
Speaker 1: you'd hear the inspirational music and then you'd seem Mort
Speaker 1: hatching his plan to change the world. But it didn't
Speaker 1: happen like that. Instead, Mort just switched courtrooms, kept trying
Speaker 1: to do his best as a prosecutor, to win the
Speaker 1: cases he could and to be honorable in a system
Speaker 1: that he knew was fundamentally corrupt. I was absolutely convinced
Speaker 1: at that point, did you share this with anyone, like
Speaker 1: even your wife? Did you shared this with anyone? With
Speaker 1: no one? Why is that a certain cowardice on my part,
Speaker 1: need to keep a job and not wanting to rock
Speaker 1: the boat, not wanting to be an outcast. The trial
Speaker 1: courts at that point were a white Christian enclave, and
Speaker 1: there were one or two other assistants who didn't care
Speaker 1: for this jew on the floor. Mort says he overheard
Speaker 1: a few colleagues make anti Semitic remarks. As he saw it,
Speaker 1: this only added his sense that he shouldn't rock the
Speaker 1: boat and make enemies. Even so, I asked him if
Speaker 1: his decision to stay quiet left him feeling guilty or
Speaker 1: worse yet complicit. Certainly. In fact, I still feel that way.
Speaker 1: There were things I could have done much better. In
Speaker 1: this way, Mort is kind of the opposite of Bob Cooley,
Speaker 1: constitutionally incapable of giving himself a pass. Mort eventually became
Speaker 1: the chief of the Criminal Division for Cook County. By population,
Speaker 1: Cook County is the biggest in Illinois and the second
Speaker 1: biggest in the United States. Mort oversaw the prosecution of
Speaker 1: thousands of felonies and misdemeanors each year. It was a
Speaker 1: huge job. Then one day in nineteen seventy three, Mort
Speaker 1: was hard at work at his desk when a young
Speaker 1: police officer appeared silently in his doorway, waiting to be noticed.
Speaker 1: And when I looked up, he said, mister Friedman, my
Speaker 1: supervisor ordered me to come here. I've been offered a
Speaker 1: bribe to flippercase. The CoP's name was Jose Martinez. He
Speaker 1: looked young and a bit nervous. Standing in the doorway,
Speaker 1: he gave Mort the lowdown. The case at hand involved
Speaker 1: an assault charge. Officer. Martinez was the cop who showed
Speaker 1: up on the scene and made the arrest. Now the
Speaker 1: defense attorney was asking him to pull some chinne nigans
Speaker 1: and helped make the case go away so his client,
Speaker 1: the assaulter, could get off. After hearing all this, Mort
Speaker 1: told the cop officer, I want you to do what
Speaker 1: you're told to do, and say what you're told to say,
Speaker 1: and bring me back the money. That's right. Mort told
Speaker 1: the cop to take the bribe. Officer Martinez, to his credit,
Speaker 1: pushed back. He said, mister Friedman, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I'd be lying in court. Mort was kind of amazed
Speaker 1: that the cop stood his ground. No, not just amazed,
Speaker 1: he was secretly delighted. Here's a young Chicago cop telling
Speaker 1: the chief of the criminal Division, I don't care what
Speaker 1: you say. I'm not going to lie in court. Looking back,
Speaker 1: Mort says he should have congratulated Martinez for wanting to
Speaker 1: do the right thing. But that's not what I did. Wait,
Speaker 1: what did you do? In a conversation that was very
Speaker 1: loud and replete with upset of these, I told him
Speaker 1: what I would do to him and his career if
Speaker 1: he defied me. Why did you do that? I had
Speaker 1: handed up to my eyeballs with corruption. I knew something
Speaker 1: had to be done. See. Mort had a plan right
Speaker 1: there on the spot. Totally spontaneously. He'd come up with
Speaker 1: an idea for a sting operation. It was both inspired
Speaker 1: and a bit reckless. Mort didn't bother to get permission,
Speaker 1: didn't map out all the possible consequences. He just wanted
Speaker 1: to do something, damn it, even if he had to
Speaker 1: put Officer Martinez in a very uncomfortable situation. Did you
Speaker 1: have any sense that maybe you'd opened to Pandora's box
Speaker 1: or started something that might end up being a big deal.
Speaker 1: I didn't care. It didn't matter at all to me
Speaker 1: at that point. I wasn't going to be a kemp.
Speaker 1: Now for his plan to work, he needed Officer Martinez
Speaker 1: Is to take the money and lie in court. That way,
Speaker 1: the government could prosecute the lawyer who made the payoff.
Speaker 1: Did Officer Martinez understand what your game plan was? Did
Speaker 1: he understand that you were out to catch corruption or
Speaker 1: did he think that you were corrupt yourself? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, in retrospect, I shouldn't have done that. I
Speaker 1: should have just patiently explained to him what I wanted done. Eventually,
Speaker 1: Officer Martinez figures out what mord Is up to, so
Speaker 1: he plays a long lies in court and instructed, and
Speaker 1: then afterwards, when he goes to collect his bribe, he
Speaker 1: wears a wire and the result was a tape recording
Speaker 1: a dead bank crime on tape, a deadbang crime on tape. Bingo. Right,
Speaker 1: Mark went up for the good guys, only not really.
Speaker 1: The dirty defense lawyer was convicted of bribery. But more
Speaker 1: strategy backfired. And let me explain why Mort was in
Speaker 1: effect tampering with the justice system. He was affecting the
Speaker 1: outcome of a real, live case. The irony, of course,
Speaker 1: was that this happened all the time anyway in a
Speaker 1: corrupt system. But the fact remained that Mort was breaking
Speaker 1: the law. He pushed a cop to accept a bribe
Speaker 1: in a single case in an attempt to stop bribery
Speaker 1: in general. The powers that be noticed what Mort had done,
Speaker 1: and now they set out to make an example of him.
Speaker 1: It was just, you don't do things like this to lawyers.
Speaker 1: It's not nice. And besides, Friedman, you're allowing you're really
Speaker 1: a much bigger center than they because you allowed a
Speaker 1: police officer to lie. Mort was ordered to appear before
Speaker 1: the Disciplinary Commission of the Illinois Supreme Court. They said
Speaker 1: he was quote guilty of conduct tending to bring the
Speaker 1: legal profession into disrepute. For someone like Mort, this was
Speaker 1: a blow. I was mostly sad at the fact that
Speaker 1: I had thought I had failed. Why do you think
Speaker 1: you cared so much? If you knew her, you were right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the answer to that question.
Speaker 1: It was just like, this is insane, this is a circus,
Speaker 1: and I'm in the middle of it. And as for
Speaker 1: the circus, well, the show went on. By the time
Speaker 1: Mort was chastised by the court for his actions, Bob
Speaker 1: Cooley had fixed the big murder trial for Harry Alaman.
Speaker 1: He was already well on his way to being the
Speaker 1: mob's go to guy, and the lesson from the Babe
Speaker 1: in the Woods seemed to be, Yes, the system is corrupt,
Speaker 1: and don't you dare try to change it, or you'll
Speaker 1: end up like Mort Friedman. Mort's story became a legend
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Everyone I talked to seemed to know about it, including,
Speaker 1: of course, Bob Cooley. I asked Bob whether he'd ever
Speaker 1: cross passed with Morden, if he knew him. I didn't
Speaker 1: know him personally, know when you heard what he was
Speaker 1: up to, did you think it would succeed. No, I
Speaker 1: knew it wouldn't, he says. He knew it wouldn't, not
Speaker 1: just because the legal system protected itself, but because ultimately
Speaker 1: the mob was just too powerful, had too much of
Speaker 1: a stranglehold on the judicial system. They had control over everything. Right,
Speaker 1: this doesn't seem to register, and I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: getting mad at you. I'm just saying you are like
Speaker 1: most people. You think, well, it couldn't be that. Believe me,
Speaker 1: it was that powerful, and then some they were everything.
Speaker 1: This was one of those moments, by the way, where
Speaker 1: I could sense Bob's mounting frustration with me that I
Speaker 1: was so naive or perhaps thickheaded, that I just couldn't
Speaker 1: grasp the most fundamental law of his world. A system
Speaker 1: that is corrupt will stay corrupt, kind of like an
Speaker 1: object in motion will stay in motion until, of course,
Speaker 1: someone stands in its way. And, as it turns out,
Speaker 1: over at the FBI, some of the gmen were getting
Speaker 1: ready to make a stand. They had taken notice of
Speaker 1: mort Friedman's failed crusade, and they were marshaling their agents,
Speaker 1: preparing an army of sorts. More on that when we
Speaker 1: come back after the break. Sometime after mort Friedman got rebuked.
Speaker 1: He says he got a call from the FBI. They
Speaker 1: had questions for him. They wanted to know how exactly
Speaker 1: bribes were being placed in Chicago's courthouses and who the
Speaker 1: culprits were. Of course, mort would be the logical to ask.
Speaker 1: Even though his crusade had failed, he was still known
Speaker 1: as the guy who dared to take on corruption. Now.
Speaker 1: Little did Mort know, the FBI had hatched a major
Speaker 1: plan to expose corruption in Chicago's courts. They called it
Speaker 1: Operation Gray Lord, and ultimately the success of this operation
Speaker 1: would hinge on a young lawyer named Terry Hake. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be a lawyer anymore. It seemed like
Speaker 1: a big game with what went on and what I
Speaker 1: thought was going on in the corporals. This tape is
Speaker 1: from a TV interview he did years ago. Terry actually
Speaker 1: gave it to me. We chatted by phone a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, but he preferred not to be interviewed on
Speaker 1: the record. Terry was a prosecutor. He was young and
Speaker 1: sincere and principled. People who knew him well said he
Speaker 1: was like a boy scout, almost like two point zero,
Speaker 1: and he would try to succeed where mort had failed.
Speaker 1: He told the TV interviewer, my perception of the corruption
Speaker 1: was that it was an old boys club. If you
Speaker 1: wanted to be one of the boys, you went along
Speaker 1: with the way things were done, and you paid money.
Speaker 1: Terry was so fed up that he was prepared to
Speaker 1: risk his entire career in order to do something about corruption.
Speaker 1: So the FBI convinced him to go undercover, posing as
Speaker 1: a corrupt lawyer. But the FBI was determined not to
Speaker 1: repeat the mistake that Mort Friedman had made, so instead
Speaker 1: of bribing officials in real cases, the FBI would stage
Speaker 1: bogus crimes with bogus criminals, like a big charade. They
Speaker 1: started with DUIs Now. The way we would do this
Speaker 1: is we would drive like ten miles over the speed
Speaker 1: limit on the Dan Ryan Expressway. This is Bill McGarry.
Speaker 1: He was the FBI case agent in charge of Operation
Speaker 1: Gray Lord starting in nineteen eighty one. Bill would tell
Speaker 1: his undercover agent to get in the car and break
Speaker 1: the speed limit in the hopes that they get pulled over.
Speaker 1: We would pour liquor on the shirt of the undercover
Speaker 1: agent so that the police officer immediately detected and smelled
Speaker 1: the odor of alcohol, and then the undercover agent would
Speaker 1: feign intoxication, you know, would slur his speech, stumble around,
Speaker 1: and sell and so forth. The thinking was the undercover
Speaker 1: agent would get arrested, spend a night or two in jail,
Speaker 1: then hire Terry as their lawyer. Terry would then attempt
Speaker 1: to place a bribe and document the whole thing. Pretty innovative, right,
Speaker 1: But there was one serious problem. So what would happen
Speaker 1: is the police officers something would just not arrest the people.
Speaker 1: They'll remembers one time the cop took the car keys
Speaker 1: of an undercover agent and just threw them down the sewer.
Speaker 1: Another time, the cops pulled over one of his guys
Speaker 1: who was posing as a drunk driver, and they buscated
Speaker 1: his keys and locked them in his car, but they
Speaker 1: did not arrest him. Bill says his agents had a
Speaker 1: really hard time getting arrested, in part because the cops
Speaker 1: knew how corrupt the system was. They knew that most
Speaker 1: of the time the people they arrested could just buy
Speaker 1: their way out of it. So what was the point.
Speaker 1: Bill did finally manage to get one of his undercover
Speaker 1: agents arrested for a dui but when they showed up
Speaker 1: in court to try the case, the presiding judge had
Speaker 1: too much to drink at lunch and court was adjourned.
Speaker 1: And this is how it went for months and months.
Speaker 1: Eventually the FBI decided to try staging more serious crimes,
Speaker 1: including felonies. So we'd have an agent who would be
Speaker 1: walking down the street carrying back In those days, you
Speaker 1: had men who would wear these purses. Then another undercover agent,
Speaker 1: playing the role of the thief would steal the aforementioned
Speaker 1: and purse. There'd be other undercover agents playing the role
Speaker 1: of witnesses who just happened to be standing around when
Speaker 1: the crime was committed. One of these witnesses would wrestle
Speaker 1: the thief to the ground, the cops would get called.
Speaker 1: Then it'd be here's the thief, we have them for you,
Speaker 1: and the whole scheme it actually worked. That's when Terry
Speaker 1: Haig entered the scene, playing the role of the dirty
Speaker 1: defense lawyer. Terry would go into the courtroom wearing a wire.
Speaker 1: Then he'd placed a bribe to get his client off.
Speaker 1: Here's a recording Terry made in which he paid off
Speaker 1: the bagman for a judge named John Divine Well here's
Speaker 1: a one fifty for roll behind okay, and verse fifty
Speaker 1: for you, oh you ceb in it? That okay? Good?
Speaker 1: And then they had it, a dead bang crime on tape,
Speaker 1: a cleanly executed sting operation. And the FBI just kept
Speaker 1: staging these bogus crimes. There was even an office where
Speaker 1: agents sat around cooking up storylines and fake crimes, like
Speaker 1: a bunch of TV guys in a writer's room out
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. They came up with fake bios and phony
Speaker 1: IDs for everyone involved. They thought of every detail. They
Speaker 1: even rented apartments to back up the fake IDs, so
Speaker 1: if anyone got suspicious and started poking around, they'd find
Speaker 1: an actual door to knock on. And the scale of
Speaker 1: this was enormous. Bill, the case agent, says that when
Speaker 1: all was said and done, he used over three hundred
Speaker 1: undercover agents, and the evidence poured in. Scores of bribes
Speaker 1: were documented, thousands of hours of conversations were taped, incriminating cops, judges, lawyers,
Speaker 1: and bag men, and it seemed like maybe finally the
Speaker 1: city of Chicago was going to get cleaned up. And
Speaker 1: then one night in August of nineteen eighty three, three
Speaker 1: years after Great Lord began, word got out and the
Speaker 1: operation was secret no more. Bob Cooley remembers this August
Speaker 1: night when news of Operation Gray Lord broke because, as
Speaker 1: it turns out, he was throwing a bachelor party for
Speaker 1: his younger brother, Dennis. Bob says he invited two hundred people,
Speaker 1: mainly lawyers and judges, to his favorite haunt counselor's row.
Speaker 1: Terry Hake, the lawyer who went undercover for Operation Gray Lord,
Speaker 1: he was there too, still very much undercover. Anyway, beer
Speaker 1: was flowing, glasses were clinking, and somewhere in the background
Speaker 1: a TV was on ron. The investigation has code named
Speaker 1: Gray Lord. It's the largest undercover investigation ever started by
Speaker 1: the United States Justice Department. Undercover FBI agents have methodically
Speaker 1: and systematically penetrated the criminal justice system in Cook County.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly the partygoers were clamor around the TV
Speaker 1: to hear what was being said. They announced on the
Speaker 1: TV that somebody was working undercover and had been for
Speaker 1: a couple of years, and there was going to be
Speaker 1: major indictments coming down on the court system there in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and all the people that are going to be indicted
Speaker 1: are standing right there alongside of US. At this point,
Speaker 1: it was unclear who exactly was going to be indicted,
Speaker 1: nor was it clear who this undercover agent was, but
Speaker 1: this much was certain. The ship was about to hit
Speaker 1: the fan. Bob says. The rollicking bachelor party got serious
Speaker 1: quick when they announced that on TV. Holy Christ, and
Speaker 1: we're all standing there. Who's standing right next to me
Speaker 1: but Terry Hack. Bob was literally standing next to the
Speaker 1: guy at the center of this whole thing. Of course,
Speaker 1: at the time, Bob didn't know that Terry Hack was
Speaker 1: the mole, the very undercover agent being mentioned on TV.
Speaker 1: Bob just thought Terry was another defense attorney. A few
Speaker 1: months later, the full story came out. The FBI uncovered
Speaker 1: a system of bagman. These are the people who insulate
Speaker 1: the judges from the dirty money. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: the bagman are lawyers, cops, and court bailiffs. Terry Hack
Speaker 1: was out at as the mole, and then the indictments
Speaker 1: began to roll. Some of the investigators have called the
Speaker 1: Cook County judicial system the most corrupt system they've ever seen.
Speaker 1: In total, ninety two officials were indicted, including seventeen judges,
Speaker 1: forty eight lawyers, ten deputy sheriffs, eight policemen, eight court officials,
Speaker 1: and a partridge in a pear tree. Yep, it was
Speaker 1: like Christmas Day at the FBI. So you might think,
Speaker 1: in light of all of this that Bob was biting
Speaker 1: his nails like he just dodged a bullet or something,
Speaker 1: or maybe his bullet was still coming. Nope, I was
Speaker 1: ultra careful when I did things, and I realized nobody
Speaker 1: would dare you to cooperate against us. Terry Hag never
Speaker 1: fowned any information about me from anybody, because nobody would
Speaker 1: dare say something about me for fear of the something
Speaker 1: would happen to him. Bob says that Operation Gray Lord,
Speaker 1: as grand as it was in scope, did not indict
Speaker 1: a single first word operative, as he called them. The
Speaker 1: key guys at the Mob relied upon Gray Lord, bagged
Speaker 1: a whole lot of public officials, but it did not
Speaker 1: break the outfits choke hold on the city. I talked
Speaker 1: to Bill McGarry about this. The FBI agent in charge
Speaker 1: of Operation Gray Lord asked him, did you suspect that
Speaker 1: the Mob was funneling its money into corruption? So we
Speaker 1: always suspected it, but we never, I think, had any
Speaker 1: hard evidence to suggest that you know that there was
Speaker 1: a lot of mom involvement in the corruption. So as
Speaker 1: incredibly impressive as gray Lord was in this regard, it
Speaker 1: fell short. Gray Lord indicted a whole number of people.
Speaker 1: All that happened was only a few of us could still,
Speaker 1: you know, fix major cases, and the price just went up.
Speaker 1: You heard him right. Perversely, the outcome for Bob from
Speaker 1: Operation Gray Lord was that he could now charge more
Speaker 1: money for fixing a case because many of his competitors
Speaker 1: had either been locked up or frightened away. So to recap, first,
Speaker 1: Morte Friedman, the Babe in the Woods, tried to clean
Speaker 1: things up and got crushed. Then the FBI, with its
Speaker 1: army of over three hundred undercover agents, waged its war.
Speaker 1: And still the mob seemed to have sway over the courts.
Speaker 1: They owned, politicians, they killed with impunity, They controlled the city.
Speaker 1: It seemed like they were untouchable. So what would it
Speaker 1: take to really end corruption in Chicago? Who would put
Speaker 1: an end to Bob Cooley and the corrupt system that
Speaker 1: he was part of, the answer, of course, was only himself.
Speaker 1: Next time, undeep cover what's going through your head at
Speaker 1: that moment? Keep the fight going, don't back down and
Speaker 1: don't give up, and I kept telling myself don't shoot.
Speaker 1: Deep Cover is produced by Jacob Smith and Amy Gaines
Speaker 1: and edited by Karen Shakerjey. Our senior editor is Jan Guera.
Speaker 1: Original music and our theme was composed by Luise Gara
Speaker 1: and Fawn Williams is our engineer. Our art this season
Speaker 1: was drawn by Cheryl Cook, designed by Sean Carney. Mia
Speaker 1: Lobell is our executive producer. Special thanks to Heather Fame,
Speaker 1: John Schnars, Carl Mcgliori Mayakine, Christina Sullivan, Eric Sandler, Mary
Speaker 1: Bett Smith, Brant Haynes, Maggie Taylor, Nicolemarano, Megan Larson, Royston Beserve,
Speaker 1: Lucy Sullivan, Edith Russlo, Riley Sullivan, Jason Gambrell, Martin Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: and Jacob Weisberg. I'm Jake Albert. Special thanks to investigative
Speaker 1: journalist Peter Carl who shared his insights on Chicago in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. If you'd like to know more about
Speaker 1: Operation Gray Lord, check out Terry Hake's memoir It's called
Speaker 1: Operation Gray Lord. He co wrote it with Wayne Klatt.
Speaker 1: Also check out Gray Lord by James Twey and Rob Warden.
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