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Speaker 1: Previously on deep Cover. In the early nineteen eighties, some
Speaker 1: reformers tried to clean up Chicago to rid the city's
Speaker 1: courts of corruption. One effort, known as Operation Gray Lord,
Speaker 1: involved hundreds of FBI agents and produced over ninety indictments.
Speaker 1: But in one significant way, Gray Lord came up short.
Speaker 1: It did not expose or take down the first Ward,
Speaker 1: the mob's political stronghold, and so the Chicago outfit was
Speaker 1: still at it, fixing cases and placing bribes. Gray Lord
Speaker 1: indicted a whole number of people, but all that happened
Speaker 1: was only a few of us could still fix major cases,
Speaker 1: and the price just went up. That's right, Bob Cooley's
Speaker 1: services were now more valuable than ever. Ironically, it was
Speaker 1: at this very moment the Bob says he was trying
Speaker 1: to get some distance from the Mob. In recent years,
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys he knew mobsters mainly had been murdered.
Speaker 1: Another gangster he knew had fled in fear of his life.
Speaker 1: And while Bob wasn't a mobster per se, he'd gotten
Speaker 1: caught up in many of their schemes and it seemed possible,
Speaker 1: if not likely, that eventually he might end up on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of a gun. So by the mid
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, Bob he's tiptoeing away from the mob's grasp,
Speaker 1: or trying to anyhow. He claims he focused on winning
Speaker 1: cases fair and square. He even moved out to the
Speaker 1: suburbs to get away from the first ward guys. I'm
Speaker 1: not socialized, saying with him, I'm not gambling with him anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm basically having nothing to do with him. But it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be that easy, not by a long shot. Because
Speaker 1: just as Bob is trying to make a fresh start
Speaker 1: of it, thinking that maybe, just maybe he's gotten away,
Speaker 1: a highly sensitive case falls in his lap. And this
Speaker 1: case would present a turning point for Bob, arguably the
Speaker 1: turning point in his life, the one that led him
Speaker 1: to betray the mob. I'm Jake Halbern, and this is
Speaker 1: deep Cover mob Land episode six, the breaking Point. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about the case that fell into Bob's lap.
Speaker 1: It involves the assault of a female police officer named
Speaker 1: Cathy Tooey, and Bob would soon find himself defending the
Speaker 1: man accused of attacking her. But before we get into
Speaker 1: all of that, I want to tell you more about
Speaker 1: Kathy and who she was. Kathy had joined the force
Speaker 1: just a few years earlier. She was in her thirties,
Speaker 1: She was a mom, had three kids at home, all
Speaker 1: of whom were teenagers. And Kathy she loved being a cop,
Speaker 1: not behind a desk, but out in the streets. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is what she wanted from the very start. When
Speaker 1: I saw in Chicago that they were allowing the women
Speaker 1: to get into a squad car and go out and
Speaker 1: make traffic stops and respond to calls, I thought, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to do. I should add that
Speaker 1: it was not easy to find Kathy or convince her
Speaker 1: to talk with me. We talked for months by phone
Speaker 1: before she agreed to an on the record interview, and
Speaker 1: when that finally happened, there were some things she was
Speaker 1: eager to discuss, like how she loved her job, and
Speaker 1: now she didn't mind being one of the few women
Speaker 1: doing what she did. Didn't bother her. She got police culture.
Speaker 1: Her husband was a cop, as were her brothers in law,
Speaker 1: her aunt, and her cousin. I did experience some prejudice
Speaker 1: from some of the officers, and I just figured I'm
Speaker 1: not going to argue with you. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: do my job. And gradually some of them came around
Speaker 1: and they would tell me, you know, I didn't think
Speaker 1: you could cut it when you first came, but I'll
Speaker 1: work with you. And Kathy says, back in the eighties
Speaker 1: in Chicago, this is a pretty good compliment and one
Speaker 1: that she worked hard to earn. She said. The knock
Speaker 1: against female cops was that they weren't tough enough, and
Speaker 1: some male officers doubted that she could really be counted
Speaker 1: on if the situation got out of hand. For her
Speaker 1: part on the streets, Kathy held her own. I didn't
Speaker 1: back down when I had to be firm. I was
Speaker 1: if somebody needed help, I pitched in, just doing my job.
Speaker 1: And for the most part, it wasn't like she was
Speaker 1: out there alone. I mean, there was a whole buddy system.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like you see on TV. Every cop
Speaker 1: had a partner to ride with them in the squad car,
Speaker 1: but there were sometimes when officers did ride solo, like
Speaker 1: around the holidays, when people took vacations and the force
Speaker 1: was stretched thin. At times like that, they'd send officers
Speaker 1: out on their own. And Kathy says, no one complained
Speaker 1: about this. You just did it so your colleagues could
Speaker 1: take their vacation and get some time with their families.
Speaker 1: And that's how it came to be that on one
Speaker 1: December night, just before New Year's Kathy was in a
Speaker 1: patrol car all by herself. I seem to recall that
Speaker 1: it was probably just after midnight, somewhere about one o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. It was late and everything had settled down,
Speaker 1: and I was riding parking tickets for people parked on
Speaker 1: the hydrants or parked on the crosswalks. Those were easy
Speaker 1: parking tickets. And while I'm writing my parking tickets, a
Speaker 1: young man came up to the car and he said,
Speaker 1: this dude just tried to get me in his car.
Speaker 1: I said, oh yeah, and I said why would he
Speaker 1: do that? He says, I don't know. I said, well,
Speaker 1: what do you want me to do and stuff, and
Speaker 1: he's as well. He says, I don't know. But there
Speaker 1: he goes the wrong way on a one way street,
Speaker 1: and I said, all right, I'll go have a talk
Speaker 1: with him. I went ahead. I went after the car
Speaker 1: which was going the wrong way on a one way street.
Speaker 1: He pulled over and and he stepped out of the car.
Speaker 1: Can cut stocky Italian guy. He came out. He was
Speaker 1: in a camel hair coat three quarter length. I told
Speaker 1: him put his hands on the hood of the car,
Speaker 1: and he did. But when he of his hands out
Speaker 1: of the pocket, he put a piece of cold rolled
Speaker 1: steel down on the hood of the car. It looked
Speaker 1: like a roll of porters and it's about as white
Speaker 1: as a man's fist. I started to reach around him
Speaker 1: to grab the cold roll steel, and I keep my radio.
Speaker 1: I said, get me an assist unit. As soon as
Speaker 1: I finished with the radio transmission, he turned, came up
Speaker 1: with the cold rolled steel in his hand, and he said,
Speaker 1: that's it. I'm going to kill you a bitch, and
Speaker 1: started the swing. Came around with a roundhouse punch. I
Speaker 1: attempted to block it, and I started to fall back,
Speaker 1: and that took me off my feet. I fell back
Speaker 1: against the squad car door, just fell back, tucked and rolled.
Speaker 1: He came down on top of me and we were
Speaker 1: fighting on the street. 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. Eventually,
Speaker 1: backup did arrive. Another officer showed up to help her.
Speaker 1: Soon more cops got there and jumped into the fray.
Speaker 1: They got Kathy into a Patti wagon and then raced
Speaker 1: her off to the hospital. So they made sure that
Speaker 1: there were no there's no mirrors in the emergency room
Speaker 1: and the room they put me in, they made sure
Speaker 1: there was no mirror up there, and I wasn't allowed
Speaker 1: to get out of bed. Don't look in the mirror,
Speaker 1: That's what they told her. In other words, you don't
Speaker 1: want to see what your own face looks like. Most
Speaker 1: of her injuries were to her head. She had a concussion,
Speaker 1: her nose was broken, and her lip was so badly
Speaker 1: torn their tooth had gone right through it. Someone told
Speaker 1: Kathy that they were going to call her husband, Marty
Speaker 1: alert him. Kathy, in her understated way, said basically, no,
Speaker 1: don't bother him, don't wake him and the kids up.
Speaker 1: I'll tell him about this later when I get home.
Speaker 1: Someone said, guess you're not going home. You're going to
Speaker 1: be here a while. And I said, is it bad? Bad?
Speaker 1: And it's bad enough, as you can imagine. The guy
Speaker 1: accused of assaulting Cathy Twoey, he had a very different
Speaker 1: version of events that night. The guy's name was Michael Kollela.
Speaker 1: He was in his twenties. He was a bodybuilder, a partier,
Speaker 1: and a brawler, a violent guy. In the last year
Speaker 1: or so, Michael had gotten into several scuffles and was
Speaker 1: facing a number of charges. Bob says that initially he
Speaker 1: didn't want to represent Michael Kolella because their first client
Speaker 1: meeting it was pretty much a disaster. Here's how it
Speaker 1: went down. Michael's father had arranged this meeting at Bob's
Speaker 1: office in the hopes that Bob might take the case.
Speaker 1: Bob took an instant dislike to Michael. He was our
Speaker 1: no more than twenty minutes because I basically threw him out.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a smart alec, but he was
Speaker 1: high at the time, no question in my mind he
Speaker 1: was high. And I just told this day, I said, look,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't help you, and I can't help him.
Speaker 1: I said, you get him cleaned up and you come back,
Speaker 1: and I said, and I will take the case. So
Speaker 1: a few weeks pass and the dad comes back with Michael,
Speaker 1: who now appears to be clean, not on drugs, and
Speaker 1: much more respectful because he was scared stiff, and he
Speaker 1: starts with attempted murder, so he's expecting minimum sentence that
Speaker 1: he's convicted as six years in the penitentiary. At this point,
Speaker 1: Michael tells Bob his version of how it all went
Speaker 1: down with Cathy Tooey. He says he was out late
Speaker 1: at night looking for a prostitute when Cathy stopped him
Speaker 1: and tried to arrest him, and she tried to handcuff him,
Speaker 1: and he pulled. He told me he pulled himself away,
Speaker 1: and she called and she put in like for a
Speaker 1: policemen in trouble, and about ten policemen came to the scene.
Speaker 1: And when they came to the scene, he's in a
Speaker 1: fight with them, with all of them and he's on
Speaker 1: the ground and one of the policemen was hitting him
Speaker 1: with a with a nightstick. That's how he got his
Speaker 1: face smashed in and that's how she obviously got hit too.
Speaker 1: So in Michael's version of events, the cops jumped him
Speaker 1: like ten cops. I'm one guy, And somehow this whole
Speaker 1: skirmish was so chaotic that Kathy accidentally got her face
Speaker 1: smashed in. Bob told me he actually believed this, says
Speaker 1: he'd been a cop and knew how cops operated and
Speaker 1: found this all credible, so he agreed to represent Michael.
Speaker 1: He says he hoped to bring the case before a
Speaker 1: jury and win Farren square. But then a few days later,
Speaker 1: out of the blue, Bob says, he gets a call
Speaker 1: from none other than Pat Marcy, who wants to meet
Speaker 1: down at Counselor's row, and Bob agrees, which I gotta
Speaker 1: say kind of puzzled me. You know, given the fact
Speaker 1: that Bob was making every effort to break with them. Bob,
Speaker 1: why did you even bother good on a meet with him?
Speaker 1: I mean, why not? Yeah? Maybe he's calling me to say, Bob,
Speaker 1: you know you won the lottery. Here's a million dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why he's calling me, but
Speaker 1: one of the thoughts that I had, probably the original thought,
Speaker 1: would be they must have a problem before a judge,
Speaker 1: or even there were some people in certain positions in
Speaker 1: the city that were friendly to me that would not
Speaker 1: be friendly with them. Or maybe when Pat Marcy calls,
Speaker 1: you just can't say no. So Bob goes down to
Speaker 1: counsel's row and lo and behold, Marcy wants to talk
Speaker 1: to him about Michael Kollela. Turns out Marcy is friendly
Speaker 1: with Michael's family, and apparently Marcy has promised the family
Speaker 1: that he would take care of Michael's legal troubles. I
Speaker 1: remember his exact words, I'll let you handle the case
Speaker 1: that we're going to get it assigned to Judge Passarella.
Speaker 1: And I said, Pat, there's no need to I said
Speaker 1: I can win the case, and he said no, you know,
Speaker 1: you just do what you're told. And they had never
Speaker 1: talked to me like that before. They knew me better.
Speaker 1: Nobody told me what to do, Nobody told me what
Speaker 1: they asked me. They asked me to do things, and
Speaker 1: if I wanted to do them, I wouldn't. If I didn't,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. Just to be clear here, Pat Marcy was
Speaker 1: basically coming in and saying, sure, you can keep representing
Speaker 1: your client, but it's going to be a bench trial,
Speaker 1: and we're going to make sure it goes to a
Speaker 1: judge who's in our pocket. In other words, were taken over.
Speaker 1: What did you say to him when he said you'll
Speaker 1: do what you're told? I said, well, okay, And as
Speaker 1: I left, I'm furious because I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: I wanted no part of fixing a case with a
Speaker 1: policewoman or a policeman based on what it happens with
Speaker 1: my father and with my father's father and whatever. That
Speaker 1: had never left my mind. It could be that the
Speaker 1: idea of fixing the case was just way too close
Speaker 1: to home. Remember, Bob came from a family of police officers,
Speaker 1: not just that his own grandfather was a cop who'd
Speaker 1: been killed on the job, or maybe what it really
Speaker 1: came down to was not morality or some tortured family history,
Speaker 1: or even the particulars of this case, but simply the
Speaker 1: fact that Bob didn't want to take orders anymore. He
Speaker 1: didn't want to be Pat Marcy's pawn. It's why he'd
Speaker 1: run away to the burbs, tried to be his own man,
Speaker 1: and kind of succeeded until Pat Marcy had summoned him
Speaker 1: like the king that he was and had given Bob
Speaker 1: an order. You do what you're told. I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it, but I have to do it. I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to say no for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know how these people are meaning what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You know, these are killers and mars
Speaker 1: and these people are fucking killers. And in the end,
Speaker 1: Bob caved. When we come back after the break, the
Speaker 1: trial begins. The case may have been fixed, but Michael's
Speaker 1: family wasn't taking any chances. According to Kathy Tooey, a
Speaker 1: few months after she was attacked, she was approached with
Speaker 1: an offer. She says they came through a fellow cop
Speaker 1: who happened to know Michael's father. The cop said he
Speaker 1: was just passing along a message. The Kalella family felt
Speaker 1: bad about what had happened, and they wanted to take
Speaker 1: care of her medical bills. Kathy refused. It seemed like
Speaker 1: hush money, but she didn't blame the cop for asking.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in any money. All I want is
Speaker 1: his son found guilty, and I said, that's it. We'll
Speaker 1: take care of it in court. Finally, the day of
Speaker 1: trial comes, Bob shows up, in court along with his client,
Speaker 1: Michael Kollela. The courtroom was an unusual courtroom, the only
Speaker 1: one in the building that's set up like this. There
Speaker 1: was about maybe i'd say about twenty five thirty seats
Speaker 1: in their front. It's full of uniform policemen. There's probably
Speaker 1: twenty of the twenty five seats uniform policeman sitting in there. Well,
Speaker 1: that's Bob's version, anyway. Kathy remembers it differently. Wholly claimed
Speaker 1: that the courtroom was passed the police officers that day. Maloney,
Speaker 1: I could say worse, but I don't want to offend you,
Speaker 1: Kathy says. Sometimes cops did turn up in droves to
Speaker 1: support a fellow officer. A call would go out, hey,
Speaker 1: we need your support. But that didn't happen today, she says,
Speaker 1: because everyone believed this was an open and shut case,
Speaker 1: almost a formality. Her support that day was her husband,
Speaker 1: along with two prosecutors and just a few cops. So
Speaker 1: when I appeared in front of these judges, I knew
Speaker 1: that I had to have all my ducks in a row.
Speaker 1: I had to have my reports clear, concise and truthful.
Speaker 1: I had to make certain that my testimony was not
Speaker 1: tentative or descriptive or flowery, it was factual. She didn't
Speaker 1: think there was anything to worry about, especially considering Michael's
Speaker 1: track record. He had a background on him, and I
Speaker 1: had no indication that there was going to be any problems.
Speaker 1: The hospital reports, his interviews, everything supported this case, so
Speaker 1: I had no reason to suspect that it was going
Speaker 1: to go any other way. When Cathy took the witness stand,
Speaker 1: she recalled how she'd stopped Michael for driving the wrong
Speaker 1: way down one way street. She ordered him out of
Speaker 1: the car, began a pet down search, Michael resisted, a
Speaker 1: fight broke out. Michael had a five inch piece of
Speaker 1: cold rolled steel inside his fist as he punched her.
Speaker 1: In the end, Cathy was so badly injured that she
Speaker 1: later had to undergo reconstructive surgery. None of us looked
Speaker 1: especially good for Bob's client. When it came time for
Speaker 1: Bob to mount his defense, he offered a bold and
Speaker 1: pretty unconventional argument. He called a number of witnesses, including Michael,
Speaker 1: and Michael told a kind of crazy story had boiled
Speaker 1: down to this. He suggested that a tattooed stranger drugged
Speaker 1: him at a bar and this induced a kind of
Speaker 1: temporary insanity. According to the Chicago Tribune, which covered the trial,
Speaker 1: that was the main thrust of Bob's argument. When I
Speaker 1: asked Bob about this, he told me, I don't believe
Speaker 1: there was ever any guy, you know, who drugged him.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. Well, that was totally like me.
Speaker 1: That's a story. That's a story. He came up with this,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's why he was high. He's telling me.
Speaker 1: That's a story. He told me. I don't believe that story,
Speaker 1: but that's the story he's telling me. Classic Bob. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: he lived in the suburbs. Now, maybe he didn't want
Speaker 1: to place bribes anymore, but he was noe. B Lincoln
Speaker 1: all told the trial didn't last long, just a few hours,
Speaker 1: and when it was time for the verdict, the judge
Speaker 1: did something very odd. He shot off the microphone first,
Speaker 1: and then he whispered so you could barely hear it,
Speaker 1: you know, not guilty. At first, no one really reacted,
Speaker 1: but then people started to realize what had just happened.
Speaker 1: What the judge had said, that the defendant, Michael Kollela,
Speaker 1: had just been acquitted of assaulting Kathy Cathy was sitting
Speaker 1: there with the two prosecutors. She looked at them and
Speaker 1: I went, what just happened? Just then her husband, Marty
Speaker 1: came over to where they were sitting. And then Marty
Speaker 1: comes in and Marty says, are they taking a break?
Speaker 1: I said no, I said, didn't judge just ruled not guilty.
Speaker 1: He says, your kidden and I said no. Marty looks
Speaker 1: at me. I said yeah. I said they couldn't get
Speaker 1: to me to get me to drop it. I said,
Speaker 1: so they got to the damn judge. I was so
Speaker 1: blind with just rage. Did it take a moment to
Speaker 1: register or did the anger come right away? No? Anger
Speaker 1: came right away. And thankfulness it was a closed office
Speaker 1: where we were sitting. I should because I told Marty
Speaker 1: I should have panicked. I should have shot the son
Speaker 1: of a bitch. And I said, he's going to do
Speaker 1: this to somebody else. After the judge whispered his not
Speaker 1: guilty verdict, Bob took his client, Michael and tried to
Speaker 1: get him out of the courtroom. Bob remembers some cops
Speaker 1: blocking his path and as I'm as I'm going to
Speaker 1: walk towards the door, they're grabbing me and screaming at
Speaker 1: me and yelling and you trader and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: They're pushing me and shoving me, and yeah, they're saying
Speaker 1: you should be ashamed of yourself. And I know why
Speaker 1: they're saying it, because I'm an ex policeman and you know,
Speaker 1: how could you represent somebody you know who did something
Speaker 1: like that? And anyhow, there was all kinds of commotion.
Speaker 1: What were you saying when they were saying you should
Speaker 1: be ashamed? I don't say anything. What am I going
Speaker 1: to say to him? I just want to get out
Speaker 1: of there and walk out of there, you know, Bob says.
Speaker 1: The police officers kept haranguing him, chanting like a Greek
Speaker 1: chorus from some overwrought tragedy. After the verdict in this case,
Speaker 1: there was an outcry from the local press. The legendary
Speaker 1: columnist Mike Royko summed up the case this way. Quote
Speaker 1: A muscular young thug named Mike Kalella, who had mulled
Speaker 1: a female police officer, told the judge that a tattooed
Speaker 1: stranger in a bar slipped a mysterious drug into his drink.
Speaker 1: That yarn made sense to the judge. People were outraged.
Speaker 1: There were calls in the press who reforms in the
Speaker 1: judicial system, and they wanted the judge to pay his
Speaker 1: decision to equip Michael Kollella has touched off a campaign
Speaker 1: to vote him down. The twenty seven year old Kollela
Speaker 1: from Elmwood Park was charged with beating officer Cathy Tooey
Speaker 1: after she stopped him for a license check on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve of nineteen eighty four. Officer Tooey says, when
Speaker 1: she heard the judge's decision last week, I can't believe this.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that any judge, after hearing all the evidence,
Speaker 1: could possibly rule in such a manner. Kathy, she may
Speaker 1: have been blind with rage, but she didn't let that
Speaker 1: stop her from seeking justice. She became a vocal critic
Speaker 1: of the judge in the case, and he was subsequently
Speaker 1: voted out of office. Kathy went back to work and
Speaker 1: eventually was promoted to a captain in the Chicago PD
Speaker 1: along with four other female officers. Sarah had never been
Speaker 1: a female captain on the Chicago Police Department. Wow, So
Speaker 1: what did that feel like, Hot, Doug, I'm mischarged? Wow? Seriously,
Speaker 1: it was a great deal of pride as for Michael Kollela.
Speaker 1: Turns out Kathy was right about him. He did go
Speaker 1: on to commit multiple assaults and eventually would go to prison.
Speaker 1: For Bob. The outcome of this trial also had big consequences,
Speaker 1: but very different ones. Just hours after the verdict, Bob
Speaker 1: says he went to meet with Pat Marcy. Among other things,
Speaker 1: Bob still needed to get paid, so Bob says he
Speaker 1: shows up a counselor's row and sees Marcy sitting at
Speaker 1: his regular table. Marcy stands up, walks down a hallway
Speaker 1: towards the building's elevators, and then ducks into a janitor's closet.
Speaker 1: Bob follows him. This, by the way, is the same
Speaker 1: thing that happened nine years earlier when Pat Marcy paid
Speaker 1: Bob for fixing the Hairy Alamann trial. So, according to Bob,
Speaker 1: there they are crowded in the little janitor's closet, Bob
Speaker 1: and the mob's political tsar standing there face to face
Speaker 1: amidst the mops and brooms and buckets. The way the
Speaker 1: closet was configured, it had a staircase and Marcy was
Speaker 1: standing on it, so he was kind of towering over Bob.
Speaker 1: At some point Marcy reached into his pocket and pulled
Speaker 1: out some cash and paid Bob what he was owed,
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. Bob then recounted to Marcy what had
Speaker 1: happened in the courtroom. I said, the media was there,
Speaker 1: you know, and they were going absolutely crazy after it.
Speaker 1: I said to Judge for some reason, you know, shut
Speaker 1: off the microphone and jumped off the bench, looking guilty
Speaker 1: as hell. I said, he's going to be in serious trouble,
Speaker 1: and what if he beefs on you? And Pat said
Speaker 1: to me, nobody would dare, nobody would dare cooperate against us.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, you're looking at somebody that
Speaker 1: just might do that. And then I thought, for some reason,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid this guy can read my mind. Don't ask
Speaker 1: me why, but that thought isn't as I'm looking at him.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, I got to change when I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: because this guy can This guy can you know, can
Speaker 1: read my mind. Such was the power of Pat Marcy
Speaker 1: to Bob. He was almost like some kind of super
Speaker 1: villain who could see right through him, access his most
Speaker 1: closely guarded thoughts, sniff out the faintest whiff of betrayal.
Speaker 1: It's understandable really why Bob almost freaked out because the
Speaker 1: thought that he had was a very dangerous one and
Speaker 1: it was quickly taking hold. Just weeks later, on a
Speaker 1: quiet Saturday morning, Bob made his big decision to flip.
Speaker 1: He walked into the office of a federal prosecutor and
Speaker 1: started talking. In subsequent meetings, Bob said he could deliver
Speaker 1: the mob. To do this, however, prosecutors would need to
Speaker 1: gather evidence, lots of it, and to get that well,
Speaker 1: Bob would have to wear a wire. He'd need to
Speaker 1: get Pat Marcy and the first word guys on tape.
Speaker 1: That was really the only surefire way to nail them.
Speaker 1: But would Bob do it? I mean, it was one
Speaker 1: thing to make an impulsive visit to a prosecutor's office
Speaker 1: or offer a few randios promises. It was another thing
Speaker 1: entirely to go undercover and risk your life. Who is
Speaker 1: to say Bob would even be any good as an
Speaker 1: undercover agent or that he could be trusted. But in
Speaker 1: the end, there is only one way to find out.
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