Mark Wahlberg to Produce MAFIA DRAMA of Chicago's Mob Lawyer, Bob Cooley, taking down the Mob- LBI Exclusive Interview
IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: When Corruption Was King......comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Mark Wahlberg.Mark Wahlberg has come aboard to produce and star in the mafia drama When Corruption Was King for Paramount Pictures.The story centers on a Chicago lawyer, Bob Cooley, who rose through the ranks to become a trusted member of an organized crime family.
When he turns states evidence, he tries to take the mob downThe Nationally syndicated radio show, The LawBusiness Insider proudly presents an Exclusive Interview with former Mafia Lawyer and Chicago Cop, Robert Cooley discussing his new Bestseller, “WHEN CORRUPTION WAS KING- Robert CooleyLISTEN to an Exclusive interview with Bob Cooley now: http://lbishow.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=356:featured-guest-bob-cooley&catid=51:americas-best-selling-authors-series
Once he ran the streets like a dark prince -- bar-hopping with mob chieftains, betting as much as a million dollars a week and doling out bribes to fix murder trials. But at age 37, corrupt attorney Robert J. Cooley got a second chance at life, a shot at redemption.
Sickened by the arrogance and brutality of his mob pals, Cooley became an undercover FBI operative. For 3 1/2 harrowing years starting in 1986, he wore a hidden wire, taping crime bosses and politicians as they rigged everything from felony cases to zoning decisions even a state insurance law.
Bob Cooley was the Chicago Mafia’s “Mechanic”—a fixer of court cases. During the 1970s and ’80s, Cooley bribed judges, court clerks, and cops to keep his Mob clients—hit men, bookies, racketeers, and crooked pols— out of jail. Paid handsomely for his services, he lived fast and enjoyed the protection of the men he served
This is the story of a Mob lawyer turned mole with a million-dollar contract on his head who has clanged back and forth between sin and sainthood like a church bell clapper—a turbulent youth, a stint on Chicago’s police force, law school, and then the inner sanctum of Chicago’s leading mobsters and corrupt political officials.
With wild abandon he chased crooked acquittals for the likes of Pat Marcy, an Al Capone protégé, who had become the Mob’s key political operative; ruthless Mafia Capo and gambling czar Marco D’Amico; and notorious hit man Harry Aleman.
He dined with Mob bosses and shared “last suppers” with friends before their gangland executions. Cooley watched as Marcy and the Mob controlled the courts, the cops, and the politicians.
Then, in a startling act of conscience, he walked into the office of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force and, without a pending conviction or a hit man on his tail, agreed to wear a wire on the same Mafia overlords who had made him a player.
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