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Mob Cop : My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department by Fred Pascente; Sam Reaves is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, a central character in Nicholas Pileggi's Casino and one of Chicago's most notori­ous mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up together on Chicago's Near West Side, and as young toughs they were rousted and shaken down by Hanhardt. While Spilotro became one of the youngest made men in Chicago Outfit history, Pascente was draft­ed into the army and then joined the police department. Soon taken under Hanhardt's wing, Pascente served as Hanhardt's fixer and bagman on the department for more than a decade. At the same time, Pascente remained close to Spilotro, mak­ing frequent trips to Las Vegas to party with his old friend while helping to rob the casinos blind. As a policeman he led a double life, doing genuine police work un­der Hanhardt's tutelage while at the same time keeping an eye out for opportunities for bribery and theft. His position on both sides of the law gave him unrivaled knowl­edge of the workings of Chicago's deeply rooted culture of corruption. Mob Cop details the decline of tra­ditional org

Who reads Mob Cop : My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department?

Author

Fred Pascente; Sam Reaves

Publisher

Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613731352

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, True Crime, History

Rating

3.66 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14