Episode 6: The Breaking Point
Deep Cover
Pushkin Industries
4.3 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
February 1986. Bob Cooley represents a bodybuilder who brutally assaulted a female police officer. Then Bob makes a decision that will change his life forever.
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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. |
| 0:46.6 | In the early 1980s, summer formers tried to clean up Chicago to rid the city's courts |
| 0:52.1 | of corruption. |
| 0:53.8 | One effort known as Operation Grey Lord involved hundreds of FBI agents and produced over |
| 0:59.4 | 90 indictments. |
| 1:01.7 | But in one significant way, Grey Lord came up short. |
| 1:05.8 | It did not expose or take down the first ward, the mob's political stronghold. |
| 1:12.1 | And so, the Chicago Outfit was still added, fixing cases and placing bribes. |
| 1:18.6 | Grey Lord indicted a whole number of people, but all that happened was only a few of us |
| 1:24.8 | could still fix major cases and the price just went up. |
| 1:30.5 | That's right, Bob Cooley's services were now more valuable than ever. |
| 1:38.5 | Ironically, it was at this very moment that Bob says he was trying to get some distance |
| 1:43.6 | from the mob. |
| 1:45.0 | In recent years, a bunch of guys he knew, mobsters mainly, had been murdered. |
| 1:49.7 | Another gangster he knew had fled in fear of his life. |
| 1:53.4 | And while Bob wasn't a mob surper, he'd gotten caught up in many of their schemes. |
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