Download Mob Cop: My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department by Fred Pascente, Sam Reaves PDF

By Fred Pascente, Sam Reaves

ISBN-10: 1613731345

ISBN-13: 9781613731345

Former Chicago police officer and Outfit affiliate Fred Pascente is the guy who hyperlinks Tony Spilotro, a imperative personality in Nicholas Pileggi’s Casino and certainly one of Chicago’s so much notori­ous mob figures, to William Hanhardt, leader of detectives of the Chicago Police division. Pascente and Spilotro grew up jointly on Chicago’s close to West aspect, and as younger toughs they have been rousted and shaken down by way of Hanhardt. whereas Spilotro turned one of many youngest made males in Chicago Outfit background, Pascente used to be draft­ed into the military after which joined the police division. quickly taken lower than Hanhardt’s wing, Pascente served as Hanhardt’s fixer and bagman at the division for greater than a decade. while, Pascente remained with regards to Spilotro, mak­ing widespread journeys to Las Vegas to social gathering along with his previous good friend whereas supporting to rob the casinos blind. As a policeman he led a double lifestyles, doing actual police paintings un­der Hanhardt’s tutelage whereas even as preserving a watch out for possibilities for bribery and robbery. His place on either side of the legislations gave him unmatched knowl­edge of the workings of Chicago’s deeply rooted tradition of corruption.
 
Mob Cop details the decline of tra­ditional equipped crime within the usa, and divulges information regarding the internal workings of the Outfit that hasn't ever been publicly published. Fred Pascente’s col­orful tales of crooked law enforcement officials and danger­ous criminals make his memoir a matchless tell-all.

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But he hung with us. We had a great time. There were always sports. And there were dice games, card games. One time we were playing brisco in the gas station near our house. We had made our own card table; we had a light rigged up. And we looked up and saw one of our friends, a guy named Freddy, in the middle of the street, and there was a black guy with a knife. And they were squaring off to fight. “What the . ” I went running over there, and on the run I hit this guy, badda-bing. One punch, he was out.

Yeah . ” All of a sudden a girl came running from across the dance floor, toward me. ” Well, it was all over. ” , I was a good student. And I played football for two years. I started at quarterback my sophomore year. But I had to quit school, because I could see my mother couldn’t make ends meet. Looking back, we probably could have gotten through, but at the time it didn’t seem like that to me. ” My mother was sick about it. But my older brother, Billy, wasn’t finished—he wanted me in school.

A scan of old arrest reports filed by him and his partner John Hinchy turns up countless phrases like “We had information that . ”; “An anonymous tip . ”; “Rec’d in anymous [sic] letter . ”; “Based on info we rec’d . ” Hanhardt had grown up on the streets, and he knew how to work them. He understood the ecology. In 1963 his extensive network of informants made him a natural choice to lead the new Criminal Intelligence Unit, which specifically targeted career criminals. Working with his own handpicked detectives and with considerable autonomy, Hanhardt produced a steady stream of busts from among Chicago’s large population of cartage thieves, hijackers, and heist men.

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