When Corruption Was King 1st edition   When Corruption Was King
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Was King:  During the 1970s and '80s, attorney Bob Cooley bribed
judges, juries, and coppers for his Chicago Mob clients. Yet,
without a pending conviction, he became the star witness in nine
federal trials in the '90s that disabled the Chicago Outfit, the
most powerful Mafia family in history. Mob lawyer turned mole
with a million-dollar contract on his head, Cooley has clanged
back and forth between sin and sainthood like a church bell's
clapper—a turbulent youth, a stint on Chicago's police force,
law school, and then the inner sanctum of Chicago's wiseguys. He
chased acquittals for Pat Marcy, former henchman of Al Capone
who became Illinois Democratic Party leader and the Mob's key
political operative; ruthless Mafia Capo Marco D'Amico; and hit
man Harry Aleman. He dined with Mob bosses and shared "last
suppers" with friends before their executions. He helped brew a
perfect storm