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Deep Cover

Episode 7: The Philosopher King ft. Michael Imperioli

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.33.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

December 1988. Bob wires up. He and the FBI set their sights on three targets: a mobbed-up car salesman, a bookie, and… a poet.

Voice acting in this episode by Michael Imperioli.

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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.

0:43.8

Previously on Deep Cover.

0:46.8

In early 1986, Bob Cooley reached a breaking point with the mob.

0:52.2

He was working at Case the old-fashioned way without bribing anyone.

0:56.8

And then the mob came in and took control of things.

0:59.8

Incisted on paying off the judge and fixing the case.

1:03.8

In this case, it was a powder keg.

1:05.8

It involved a young man who brutally assaulted a female police officer.

1:10.8

Bob represented the assailant.

1:12.8

And when the verdict came in, not guilty, there was an uproar.

1:17.8

As I'm going to walk towards the door, they're grabbing me and screaming at me and yelling,

1:22.8

saying, I'm a traitor and stuff like that.

1:26.8

And I know why they're saying it because I'm an expel Eastman.

1:29.8

And how could you represent somebody who did something like that?

1:33.8

Bob was finished with the mob.

1:36.8

And shortly after this, he walked into the office of a federal prosecutor

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