Pushkin

Hey, it's Jake.

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Previously on Deep Cover.

Bob Cooley fled Chicago in November of 1989.

Bob's life as he knew it was over.

He had rejected the Witness Protection Program and instead opted to improvise.

He took on a new identity and planned to hide out.

Meanwhile, back in Chicago, Bob's efforts resulted in charges against at least two dozen men,

lawyers, judges, cops and politicians.

Chief among them was Pat Marcy, who effectively ran the first ward, the mob's political stronghold.

So this is like a, not just a cascade, it's an earthquake on Chicago politics.

This is a staggering revelation involving a lawyer virtually no one outside of a circle of real insiders new at all.

Bob's days as a covert operative may have been over, but he still had work to do.

He would be the prosecution's star witness in a series of trials.

This was the final stage of Operation Gambad.

The goal? Break the Chocol. The mob had on Chicago.

There's a little story Bob told me that kind of sums up what his life was like after he fled Chicago.

And it's about, of all things, furniture.

I started off when I first, when I first left town, I started off with all my own furniture and all the rest of it.

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