Episode 3: The Fix
Deep Cover
Pushkin Industries
4.3 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
May 1977. After a witness decides to speak out, a hitman named Harry Aleman stands trial for the murder of William Logan. Bob Cooley is asked to “handle it.” The case is make-or-break for Cooley’s career, and possibly his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:11.0 | Jake Halpern here. |
| 0:12.5 | Before we get started, I wanted you to know that Deep Cover Season 2 will be dropping |
| 0:17.6 | weekly on Mondays. |
| 0:19.8 | But the full season is available right now, ad-free for Pushkin Plus subscribers. |
| 0:26.8 | That's all 10 episodes right away. |
| 0:29.8 | Find Pushkin Plus on the Deep Cover Show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm. |
| 0:48.0 | By the mid-1970s, Bob Cooley had earned a reputation in Chicago as a flashy criminal defense |
| 0:54.6 | lawyer who knew how to win. |
| 0:57.2 | Sometimes he won fair and square, but he was also willing to place a bribe to get the |
| 1:01.9 | verdict he wanted. |
| 1:04.0 | In 1977, Bob was approached by Pat Marcy, the mob's political czar. |
| 1:10.6 | Marcy asked him to fix a murder case, something that Bob had never done before. |
| 1:15.9 | And this wasn't just any murder case. |
| 1:18.6 | It was the trial of a mob hitman named Harry Alamon. |
| 1:22.9 | He's like a bantam rooster. |
| 1:27.9 | Bob knew that he needed to get this case into the hands of the exact right judge. |
| 1:38.4 | And according to Bob, he had the perfect person in mind. |
| 1:46.6 | Bob Cooley was a guy who seemed to know everyone. |
| 1:50.1 | And he wasn't in court, Bob liked to eat out, party, and gamble. |
| 1:54.8 | Sometimes he mixed work with pleasure. |
| 1:56.8 | He was an off-the-book silent partner of an Italian restaurant, a place called Greco's |
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