Who Was Bob Cooley?

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives, how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a greater cause, and how sometimes, seemingly small decisions can change the course of history. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals dark underworlds most of us know nothing about. The new season, Mob Land, tells the true story of a high-rolling Chicago lawyer who fixed court cases for the mob. He did this for years... until he decided to betray them and work with the FBI. He wears a wire to expose a black market of corruption—where politicians were bought and justice was sold. Where, for the right price, even murderers could walk free... With first-hand interviews from FBI agents, mobsters, family members, and criminals, the story is a wild journey into a world of corruption, murder, and deceit.

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0:00.0	Hello, we're Visionist History listeners. This is producer Jacob Smith. You might remember
0:15.0	me from such episodes as I love you Weimo and Hamlet was wrong. I'm dropping into the
0:20.4	feed today to share another project I've been working on this past year with the Pushkin
0:24.4	team. It's a serialized show called Deep Cover, hosted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning
0:29.1	journalist Jake Halburn, and we tell true stories about crime, double lives, and corruption.
0:35.2	Season 1 was about an FBI agent who infiltrated a biker gang and then followed a series of
0:39.5	clues that inadvertently led to the US invasion of a foreign country. And now, we're ready
0:44.9	to bring you an equally epic tale with season 2. Season 2 of Deep Cover, Mobland, tells
0:51.6	the story of a high-rolling lawyer who fixed court cases for the infamous Chicago outfit.
0:56.6	He did this for years until one day when he decided to betray the mob. He started working
1:01.5	with the FBI to try and bring them down. As part of reporting the story, we spoke with
1:07.2	everyone from FBI agents to mobsters to innocent bystanders, and of course, the lawyer at the
1:12.9	center of it all. It's a fully immersive podcast that includes long forgotten wiretapped
1:17.9	recordings from the 80s. Voice acting by Michael Imperiali, I got a hold of the truth. You want
1:26.0	a piece of it? And it features original music from Revisionist history's very own Luis
1:30.4	Guerra. I hope you have as much fun listening to the show as we did making it. Deep Cover,
1:36.6	Mobland, is out now airing weekly wherever you get your podcasts. And you can get the
1:41.3	entire season right now, ads free by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber, an Apple Podcast,
1:47.4	or a Pushkin.fm slash plus. Okay, here's the preview.
2:00.6	Here's the first thing I need to tell you about Robert Cooley. Officially, legally, he
2:06.7	no longer exists. He's a ghost. For all intents and purposes, the man named Bob Cooley died
2:19.2	decades ago. But in reality, Bob, he's still very much alive. So your neighbors have no
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