Operation Greylord, Terrence Hake
Operation Greylord, Terrence Hake
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Operation Greylord
The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust

Author: Terrence Hake, Wayne Klatt

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/07/2015

Synopsis

Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments.

And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, who worked undercover for nearly four years, accepting bribes, making payoffs, wearing a wire in bars and to racetracks, bugging a judge's chambers, and befriending people he knew he would betray.

About Terrence Hake

Terrence Hake is currently an Assistant State's Attorney in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Una on February 17, 2016

This book reports on very disturbing events in the courts. The writing seems to drop words in sentences regularly. The eBook contained no date of publication.......more

Goodreads review by Randal on November 16, 2018

An excellent book. Hake put his own life and career at stake to help bring down one of the most crooked government organizations in the U.S., the Cook County Courts. I'm very familiar with the Greylord case, and the author filled in a lot of the blanks that I didn't know about. I had the opportunity......more

Goodreads review by Kirsti on May 19, 2016

When Terrence Hake was a brand-new lawyer, he went undercover for the FBI and arranged so many bribes that people at the courthouse started calling him Terry Take. (Those folks loved nicknames--other players included Silvery, Dollars, Jingles, and Dog Breath.) Hake thought the investigation would la......more

Goodreads review by Wesley on April 16, 2024

Couldn’t bring myself to finish this book. For a lawyer, the way he writes is just, so un-engaging. And I want to be a lawyer, so it’s not some sort of complex language structure or anything. Not sure what else to say except hard skip.......more

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